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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Sterling Range from the trail to Mount Mansfield's Adams apple
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- Date Created: 1920-02-21 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Looking North from the chin of Mount Mansfield
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- Date Created: 1920-02-22 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Cowles in a rail road train
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- Date Created: 1920-02-20 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Approach to Birch Lodge from the North
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- Date Created: 1919
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Westerly view over Bolton from a hill opposite Huntley's
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West from the westerly end of the Nebraska Notch Trail to Mount Mansfield
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- Date Created: 1920-08
- Description: Pictured in this image is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Crossing the Winooski River at Bolton
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- Date Created: 1928
- Description: Pictured is the Bolton Ferry crossing the Winooski River.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Ward Olney and Leverett Smith washing dishes at Carmel Camp
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- Date Created: 1921-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Northbound from Boyce Lodge
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- Date Created: 1926
- Description: The people in this image are identified as: Miss Murphy, Connie, and Helen. The person named "Connie" may be Connie Gilbert.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs