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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Miniature of At the foot of zig-zags on General Stark Mountain
At the foot of zig-zags on General Stark Mountain
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    • Date Created: 1919-09
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Part of: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the East
    Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the East
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      • Date Created: 1919?
      • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Part of: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of A bad bit of blowdown
      A bad bit of blowdown
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        • Date Created: 1919
        • Description: Slide negative done by Puffer.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Part of: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Johnson School on Glacier Boulder
        Johnson School on Glacier Boulder
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          • Description: Those in the party pictured here are Mr. Cherrie and Theron Dean.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Part of: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Trail building 5 - painting blazes
          Trail building 5 - painting blazes
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            • Date Created: 1919?
            • Description: This image is the fifth in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection. The gentlemen pictured is identified in the original title as "V.", although this person looks very much like Professor Monroe. The sign in this image reads, " Whittier Ravine ."
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Part of: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Looking South from the second knoll of the New Trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
            Looking South from the second knoll of the New Trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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              • Date Created: 1919-08
              • Description: The person pictured here is identified as Leverett Smith. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Part of: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Burnt Rock Mountain
              Burnt Rock Mountain
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                • Date Created: 1919-09
                • Description: The person in this photograph is identified as "Skidmore Geo. Parmelee."
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Part of: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the Winooski River
                Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the Winooski River
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                  • Date Created: 1919?
                  • Description: The original title states that this photograph was a gift to Congdon from Theron Dean. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Part of: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Tin huts on Camel's Hump
                  Tin huts on Camel's Hump
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                    • Date Created: 1919?
                    • Description: Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Part of: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Sunset from Katharine Knoll on the New Trail to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
                    Sunset from Katharine Knoll on the New Trail to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                      • Date Created: 1919-09
                      • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                      Part of: Long Trail Photographs