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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181 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Elihu B. Taft Lodge under construction
Elihu B. Taft Lodge under construction
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    • Date Created: 1920-08
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Forester named Bourne at Porcupine Lodge on Stratton Mountain
    Forester named Bourne at Porcupine Lodge on Stratton Mountain
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      • Date Created: 1921-08-25 00:00:00
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Camel's Hump Club Huts
      Camel's Hump Club Huts
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        • Date Created: 1919-09
        • Description: Identified in the photograph are (from left to right) Parmelee and Herbert Wheaton Congdon. The woman to the right is unidentified. Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Two adults and a child outside a lodge
        Two adults and a child outside a lodge
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          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Taylor Lodge
          Taylor Lodge
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            • Date Created: 1926-09
            • Description: Colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Approach to Cooley Glen from the South
            Approach to Cooley Glen from the South
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              • Date Created: 1919-09
              • Description: Pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Leverett Smith and porcupine at Dunsmoor Lodge
              Leverett Smith and porcupine at Dunsmoor Lodge
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                • Date Created: 1920-08-25 00:00:00
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Two women camping on the trail
                Two women camping on the trail
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                  • Date Created: 1926-02-24 00:00:00
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of New Barnes Camp
                  New Barnes Camp
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                    • Date Created: 1927
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Voter and party in camp laying rills for the Sucker Brook Lodge
                    Voter and party in camp laying rills for the Sucker Brook Lodge
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                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs