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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Taft Lodge in Summer
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    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


    Burtis, Cowles, Mr. Badgley (?) and Chris at Taft Lodge
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      • Date Created: 1920-08-02 00:00:00
      • Description: The original title states that this was image was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


      Glen Ellen Lodge
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        • Date Created: 1917-07-01 00:00:00
        • 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


          Dockhams at Dunsmoor Lodge
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            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


            Battell Lodge on Lincoln Mountain
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              • Date Created: 1914-07-01 00:00:00
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


              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


                Alex putting out a fire at Camp Necessity
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                  • Date Created: 1922
                  • Description: This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


                  Three men at Taylor Lodge in Nebraska Notch
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                    • Date Created: 1935-08-08 00:00:00
                    • Description: There are four directional signs attached to the tree in this image. Those that are legible read "Bolton Lodge" and "Mansfield Mountain [???] Lodge."
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


                    Three young people in front of a lodge
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                      • Description: The three young people in this image are not identified.
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs