Long Trail Photographs
The Long Trail Collection includes over 900 images of the oldest long-distance hiking trail in the United States: Vermont’s Long Trail. The collection is mainly comprised of black-and-white and hand-colored lantern slides derived from photographs taken between 1912 and 1937. It documents the Green Mountain Club’s building of original trails and shelters and illustrates the enthusiasm for the Long Trail project (and hiking in general) at the turn of the century. These images chronicle the views and landscapes seen by early hikers of the Long Trail and provide an historical record of people associated with the Green Mountain Club’s formative years.
The images in this collection were captured by Green Mountain Club members Theron S. Dean and Herbert Wheaton Congdon, both of whom were early contributors to the trail’s development. Congdon surveyed and mapped a large portion of the early trail including a fifty mile stretch from Middlebury Gap to Bolton. Congdon, along with Leroy Little and Clarence Cowles, is also credited with the first winter ascent of Mount Mansfield on February 21, 1920. Dean is perhaps the most prolific documenter of the Long Trail’s development. Dean traveled throughout Vermont presenting slideshows and giving talks about the Long Trail, often to hundreds of people. A number of the original lantern slides in this collection were used by Congdon and Dean in their Long Trail presentations. Dean in particular meticulously cultivated his lantern slide collection and displayed these slides during his many talks.
The original slides can be viewed in the Dean and Congdon collections at the University of Vermont Silver Special Collections Library. More information about the Long Trail can be obtained from the Green Mountain Club. The slides were scanned by the University's Landscape Change Program with the generous support of the National Science Foundation. The digitized photographs also appear in the Landscape Change image database at: http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/
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Dean at the end of the Professor Monroe Skyline Trail in Glen Ellen
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- Date Created: 1917-02-17 00:00:00
- Description: The sign in this image reads "Stark Mountain, Birch Glen Lodge, Crouching Lion" with arrows pointing away from Dean. The sign also reads "Lincoln Mountain."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Mellinger H. Henry of Dickinson Heights Jersey City at Glen Ellen
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- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Loveland and Burtis Dean at the Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
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- Date Created: 1922-07-30 00:00:00
- Description: The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion).
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
North from the trail down into the Lincoln Warren Pass
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- Date Created: 1918-09
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Bert Mays house in Bolton during the 1928 flood
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- Description: Colored by Mrs. Perry in February 1929. The original photograph notes: "15(?) people spent night of flood here - 9 of them children."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Looking West toward Bristol from the Battell Lodge attic window
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- Date Created: 1917-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Lincoln Peak or Mount Abraham and Elden Atkins Farm
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- Description: The original image was taken one hour after sunset.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs