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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Sunset view of Mount Mansfield from the East
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- Date Created: 1926-05-06 00:00:00
- Description: Both the slide and coloring were done by Robert Wilkinson of Montpelier.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Tucker party on Mount Abraham
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- Date Created: 1920
- Description: Colored by Mrs. Perry in February or March, 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Dead trees on Mount Mansfield
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- Description: Negative colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Camp 4 on Bolton Mountain
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- Description: The sign in the middle of the image reads "Trout Club" and points to the right.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Birch Glen sign on General Stark Mountain
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- Date Created: 1917-02-18 00:00:00
- Description: The sign reads "Birch Glen 3 m." and has a G.M.C. (Green Mountain Club) marking.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Pleiad Lake
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- Description: Colored by Mrs. Perry in February, 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the East
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- Date Created: 1925-08-28 00:00:00
- Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Central Vermont Railway after the flood
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- Date Created: 1929-02-14 00:00:00
- Description: Negative and slide by Clark.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
King Rock
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- Description: The explanation with the original slide states that this rock fell between Thanksgiving and Christmas 1909. Its estimated weight is 5,000 tons - as estimated by "a Middlebury Professor." The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry and retouched by her on November 16, 1924.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs