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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869 Long Trail 833 Hiking 181 Camping 145 Camels Hump 118 Mount Mansfield 48 Congdon, Herbert Wheaton 1876-1965. 36 Mount Abraham 33 Animals 33 Smith, Leverett. 31 Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour) 1863-1939. 26 Mount Ellen 24 Smugglers Notch 23 Bolton Mountain 23 Dean, Theron S. 19 Town of Bolton 17 Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter) 1875-1963. 16 Waterfalls 15 Burnt Rock Mountain 15 Pico Peak 15 Stark Mountain 15 Taft Lodge 14 Burnham, Lyman. 14 Children 13 Battell Shelter 12 Farmhouses 11 Jay Peak 11 Smith, Gilbert. 10 Birch Glen Camp 10 Boats and boating 10 Emily Proctor Shelter 10 Killington Peak 10 Surveying -- Instruments 9 Farms 9 Lincoln Mountain 9 Montclair Glen Lodge 9 Nebraska Notch 9 Taylor Lodge 8 Barnes Camp 8 Bread Loaf Mountain 8 Bridges 8 Cooley Glen Shelter 8 Cows 7 Bolton Lodge 7 Burnham, Rogers. 7 Lake Mansfield 6 Canoes and canoeing 6 Lake of the Clouds 6 Molly Stark Mountain 6 Mount Ethan Allen 6 Sterling Pond 5 Carmel Camp 5 Gilbert, Connie. 5 Kurth, Hilda 5 Lincoln Peak 5 Mount Hunger 5 Norris, Kathleen 5 Olney, Ward. 5 Robbins, Catherine 5 Town of Bristol 5 Winooski River 4 Bromley Mountain 4 Horses 4 Hotels 4 Jeffersonville 4 Mount Horrid 4 Pleiad Shelter 4 Puffer, Louis. 4 Taylor, James P. 4 Town of Bennington 3 Beaver Meadow 3 Belvidere Mountain 3 City of Burlington 3 Flood damage 3 Flowers 3 Hell Hollow Brook 3 Horses. 3 Joiner Brook 3 Madonna Peak 3 Mount Grant 3 Mount Roosevelt 3 Pleiad Lake 3 Prospect Rock 3 Ritterbush Camp 3 Sucker Brook Shelter 3 Town of Huntington 3 Town of Johnson 3 Town of Stowe 3 Town of Underhill 3 Town of Warren 3 White Rocks 2 Bingham Falls 2 Bliss, Fred. 2 Bourn Pond 2 Boyce Shelter 2 Chamberlain, Allen b. 1867. 2 Dams 2 Journeys End Camp 2 Lincoln Gap 2 Middlebury Gap 2 Morses Mill 2 Mount Carmel 2 Mount Ira Allen 2 Mount Wilson 2 Noyes Pond 2 Round Top 2 Sherburne Pass 2 Stratton Mountain 2 Stratton Pond 2 Theron Dean Shelter 2 Three Shanties Brook 2 Town of Duxbury 2 Town of Killington 2 Town of Shrewsbury 2 Town of Waitsfield 1 Appalachian Gap 1 Barns 1 Battell Trail 1 Big Spring 1 Boats and boating. 1 Button Hill 1 Carpenter, Grace. 1 Carpenter, Molly. 1 Chamberlain Glen 1 Chilcoot Pass 1 Chittenden Reservoir 1 City of Rutland 1 Clarendon Gorge 1 Congdon, Herbert Wheaton 1876-1965 1 Cowles Cove Shelter 1 Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter) 1875-1963 1 Dorset Mountain 1 Downer Glen 1 Elephants Head 1 Fay Fuller Camp 1 French Hill 1 Glastenbury Camp 1 Green Mountain 1 Griffith Shelter 1 Harmon Hill 1 Haystack Mountain 1 Hazens Notch 1 Interior architecture 1 Jerusalem 1 Laura Woodward Camp 1 Little Rock Pond 1 Mendon Peak 1 Middlesex Center 1 Molly Stark Trail 1 Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour) 1863-1939 1 Moulds Lodge 1 Mount Pisgah 1 New Haven River 1 North Pond 1 Parker Camp 1 Pico Pond 1 Ritterbush Pond 1 Somerset Reservoir 1 Spring Lake 1 Sterling Range 1 Styles Peak 1 Sugarloaf Mountain 1 Swimming 1 Town of Glastenbury 1 Town of Goshen 1 Town of Lincoln 1 Town of Mendon 1 Town of Montgomery 1 Town of Plymouth 1 Town of Starksboro 1 Town of Wallingford 1 Town of Woodstock

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918 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Battell Lodge on Lincoln Mountain
Battell Lodge on Lincoln Mountain
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    • Date Created: 1914-07-01 00:00:00
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Sugarloaf and Nebraska Notch
    Sugarloaf and Nebraska Notch
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      • Description: The images inscription at the bottom reads: "The Notch from Underhill Side - Photo by M___" (illegible).
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Glastonbury Camp East of Bennington - 3600 foot elevation
      Glastonbury Camp East of Bennington - 3600 foot elevation
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        • Description: The original title states that the camp faces South and that there is a "fine view South." Those identified in the picture are: "Puffer in pajamas at corner," Major Jenks, and Bob Aiken. The original negative belonged to "Puffer." The slide was colored in September, 1931.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
        Party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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          • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
          • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Mount Mansfield nose and Summit House from the northwest
          Mount Mansfield nose and Summit House from the northwest
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            • Description: In this image, the Mount Mansfield Summit House can be seen from a distance. This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel." Recolored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Burlington Harbor and Rock Point from Battery Park
            Burlington Harbor and Rock Point from Battery Park
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              • Description: Colored by Miss G.E. Peck of Burlington, Vermont in 1918.
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Congdon looking South from the eyebrow on Mount Mansfield
              Congdon looking South from the eyebrow on Mount Mansfield
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                • Date Created: 1920-08-17 00:00:00
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Mount Abraham from cliff panorama
                Mount Abraham from cliff panorama
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                  • Date Created: 1918-09
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Smugglers' Notch from the road to Barnes Camp
                  Smugglers' Notch from the road to Barnes Camp
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                    • Date Created: 1920-08-04 00:00:00
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of White Rocks Mountain from Button Hill
                    White Rocks Mountain from Button Hill
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                      • Date Created: 1921-08-13 00:00:00
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs