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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Signs on a spruce at the ruins of Beaver Meadow Cabin
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- Description: The signs in this image read, Baby Stark Mt., General Stark Mt., Glen Ellen of Mount Ellen, Lincoln Mt., Couching Lion, Molly Stark Mt., Birch Glen Lodge, and Starksboro. Slide done by Chas. Beseler Co.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Hound's Tooth on Mount Horrid
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- Description: Colored by Beselars and recolored by Mrs. Perry in March 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Lincoln Mountain and Mount Ellen looking North from Mount Abraham
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- Date Created: 1935-08-03 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Carmel Camp - elevation 2800 feet at sunrise
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- Date Created: 1936-08-03 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Birch Glen Lodge - 5.5 miles from Glen Ellen
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- Date Created: 1935-08-04 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Tent in Cooley Glen
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- Date Created: 1918?
- Description: A lodge was built in Cooley Glen in 1919. Pictured are Allen and Gilbert Smith, along with Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Tip of frosted balsam and Long Trail sign on Lincoln Mountain near Mount Ellen
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- Date Created: 1917-10-07 00:00:00
- Description: The original title included the names Miss Goodell and Jess Farrete. Their role in the creation of the slide was not given.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Congdon's patrol at a deserted lumber camp near Lake Mansfield
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- Date Created: 1914-09-08 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Lower Falls of Joiner Brook - Bolton Village
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- Date Created: 1920-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Burlington Section of the Green Mountain Club
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- Date Created: 1920-02-23 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs