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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Daniel Webster Marker erected by the Stratton Mountain Club on August 10, 1915
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- Date Created: 1915-08-10 00:00:00
- Description: The marker reads: "This rock marks the spot where Daniel Webster spoke to about 15000 people at Whig Convention July 7 & 8, 1840."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Theron Dean on the chin of Mount Mansfield
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- Date Created: 1918-02-16 00:00:00
- Description: The original description states that this photo was colored by "_____(?)" and "retouched by K. Feb. '29." It also mentions another photo titled "Dean on Chin, Mt. Mansfield 2.16.1918 (by Dean)" which may may indicate that the photo pictured here was also taken on February 16, 1918.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Plymouth from the east
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- Description: Negative by Richardson. Colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Summit of Camel's Hump
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- Description: Pictured are Mr. Dockham, Mrs. Dockham of Worcester, Massachusetts and an unknown individual. Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Looking North from the chin of Mount Mansfield
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- Date Created: 1920-02-22 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Cowles and L.L. Little going up the north side of the chin on Mount Mansfield
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- Date Created: 1920-02-21 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Camel's Hump Club Huts
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- Date Created: 1919-09
- Description: Identified in the photograph are (from left to right) Parmelee and Herbert Wheaton Congdon. The woman to the right is unidentified. Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Summit House on Mount Mansfield
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- Description: This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs