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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831 Long Trail 180 Camping 139 Camels Hump 118 Mount Mansfield 47 Congdon, Herbert Wheaton 1876-1965. 36 Mount Abraham 33 Smith, Leverett. 29 Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour) 1863-1939. 26 Mount Ellen 23 Bolton Mountain 23 Dean, Theron S. 21 Smugglers Notch 16 Animals 16 Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter) 1875-1963. 16 Waterfalls 15 Burnt Rock Mountain 15 Stark Mountain 15 Taft Lodge 15 Town of Bolton 14 Burnham, Lyman. 14 Pico Peak 13 Battell Shelter 11 Smith, Gilbert. 10 Birch Glen Camp 10 Emily Proctor Shelter 10 Killington Peak 10 Surveying -- Instruments 9 Children 9 Jay Peak 9 Lincoln Mountain 9 Nebraska Notch 9 Taylor Lodge 8 Barnes Camp 8 Boats and boating 8 Bread Loaf Mountain 8 Cooley Glen Shelter 8 Montclair Glen Lodge 7 Bolton Lodge 7 Burnham, Rogers. 6 Lake of the Clouds 6 Molly Stark Mountain 6 Mount Ethan Allen 6 Sterling Pond 5 Carmel Camp 5 Farms 5 Gilbert, Connie. 5 Kurth, Hilda 5 Lincoln Peak 5 Mount Hunger 5 Norris, Kathleen 5 Robbins, Catherine 4 Bridges 4 Bromley Mountain 4 Canoes and canoeing 4 Cows 4 Farmhouses 4 Hotels 4 Mount Horrid 4 Olney, Ward. 4 Pleiad Shelter 4 Puffer, Louis. 4 Taylor, James P. 4 Town of Bristol 3 Beaver Meadow 3 Belvidere Mountain 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 Stowe 3 Town of Underhill 3 Town of Warren 3 White Rocks 3 Winooski River 2 Bingham Falls 2 Bliss, Fred. 2 Bourn Pond 2 Boyce Shelter 2 Chamberlain, Allen b. 1867. 2 City of Burlington 2 Hell Hollow Brook 2 Jeffersonville 2 Journeys End Camp 2 Lincoln Gap 2 Middlebury Gap 2 Mount Carmel 2 Mount Ira Allen 2 Mount Wilson 2 Noyes Pond 2 Sherburne Pass 2 Stratton Mountain 2 Stratton Pond 2 Theron Dean Shelter 2 Three Shanties Brook 2 Town of Bennington 2 Town of Duxbury 2 Town of Killington 2 Town of Shrewsbury 1 Appalachian Gap 1 Barns 1 Battell Trail 1 Big Spring 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 Elephants Head 1 Fay Fuller Camp 1 Flood damage 1 French Hill 1 Glastenbury Camp 1 Green Mountain 1 Griffith Shelter 1 Harmon Hill 1 Haystack Mountain 1 Hazens Notch 1 Horses 1 Horses. 1 Jerusalem 1 Lake Mansfield 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 Round Top 1 Somerset Reservoir 1 Spring Lake 1 Sterling Range 1 Styles Peak 1 Sugarloaf Mountain 1 Swimming 1 Town of Glastenbury 1 Town of Johnson 1 Town of Mendon 1 Town of Montgomery 1 Town of Plymouth 1 Town of Starksboro 1 Town of Wallingford

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833 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Clarendon Gorge looking North
Clarendon Gorge looking North
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    • Date Created: 1921-08
    • Description: There is now a suspension bridge that crosses this gorge.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Lyman Burnham and measuring wheel at Hanksville-Fayston pass
    Lyman Burnham and measuring wheel at Hanksville-Fayston pass
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      • Date Created: 1917-09
      • Description: A sign affixed to a tree in the center of the image reads "Fayston-Huntington Pass" and a trail marker below points the way to Birch Lodge. The numbers 22172 have been carved into the trunk of the tree.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Trail northwards from Birchfield
      Trail northwards from Birchfield
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        • Date Created: 1919-09
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Mist and rock face
        Mist and rock face
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          • Date Created: 1940
          • 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
          Miniature of Downed tree and underbrush
          Downed tree and underbrush
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            • Date Created: 1940
            • 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
            Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) - woman in the foreground
            Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) - woman in the foreground
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              • Date Created: 1926
              • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Couching Lion from the East
              Couching Lion from the East
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                • Date Created: 1926
                • Description: The date given in the original title is Friday, August 25-28, 1926. These dates most likely refer to the dates of the hiking trip on which the photograph was taken. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
                Professor Monroe and 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 Old Parker and Herr
                  Old Parker and Herr
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                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Cleared hill and fence
                    Cleared hill and fence
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                      • Date Created: 1914
                      • 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