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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Leach and Warren making packs on the Mount Mansfield nose
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- Date Created: 1920-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Parmelee on the south face of Burnt Rock Mountain
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- Date Created: 1919-09
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Near the Mount Manfield Adam's apple
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- Date Created: 1919
- Description: This slide negative was done by Puffer.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Sleeping beauties at the Pleiad Lodge
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- Date Created: 1919
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Spring in a clearing 1 1/2 miles up Pico from Sherburne Pass
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- Date Created: 1921-08-08 00:00:00
- Description: Pictured is Leverett T. Smith.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Sterling Pond and Mount Mansfield from Madonna lookout
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- Date Created: 1919?
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Trail building 1 - the prospect
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- Date Created: 1920
- Description: This image is the first in the series of "Trail Building" photos by Herbert Wheaton Congdon. There are four others in the collection.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Second knoll from first knoll on the New Trail to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- Date Created: 1919-09
- Description: A note on the original image points out that there are two men on top of the knoll. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Emily Proctor Lodge
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- Date Created: 1918-09-01 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs