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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181 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Taylor Lodge and Twitchell
Taylor Lodge and Twitchell
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    • Description: Colored by Mrs. Perry in March of 1929.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Congdon and surveying wheel at Dunsmoor Lodge
    Congdon and surveying wheel at Dunsmoor Lodge
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      • Date Created: 1920-08-24 00:00:00
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Sucker Brook Lodge from northern approach
      Sucker Brook Lodge from northern approach
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        • Date Created: 1921-08-02 00:00:00
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Deer Leap Lodge at Sherburne Pass
        Deer Leap Lodge at Sherburne Pass
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          • Date Created: 1921?
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Governor Clement Camp, 5 miles South of Rutland
          Governor Clement Camp, 5 miles South of Rutland
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            • Description: The gentlemen in the photo are: Major Jenks (left) and either Bob Aiken or Puffer (right). The photo was a gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Field. The negative was done by Puffer, the slide by Eldred, and the coloring by Mrs. Perry.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Elihu B. Taft Lodge from trail to the chin of Mount Mansfield
            Elihu B. Taft Lodge from trail to the chin of Mount Mansfield
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              • Date Created: 1920-08-12 00:00:00
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Taylor Lodge
              Taylor Lodge
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                • Date Created: 1926
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Three men eating outside Glen Ellen Lodge
                Three men eating outside Glen Ellen Lodge
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                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Ernest and Alarie Lesage at their tent in Nebraska Notch
                  Ernest and Alarie Lesage at their tent in Nebraska Notch
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                    • Date Created: 1917-08-22 00:00:00
                    • Description: The original title includes the note: "Tent ruined by hail storm."
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Mr. and Mrs. and Edson Bigelow at Smugglers' Notch Camp
                    Mr. and Mrs. and Edson Bigelow at Smugglers' Notch Camp
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                      • Date Created: 1920-08
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs