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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869 Long Trail 833 Hiking 181 Camping 145 Camels Hump 118 Mount Mansfield 48 Congdon, Herbert Wheaton 1876-1965. 36 Mount Abraham 33 Animals 33 Smith, Leverett. 31 Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour) 1863-1939. 26 Mount Ellen 24 Smugglers Notch 23 Bolton Mountain 23 Dean, Theron S. 19 Town of Bolton 17 Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter) 1875-1963. 16 Waterfalls 15 Burnt Rock Mountain 15 Pico Peak 15 Stark Mountain 15 Taft Lodge 14 Burnham, Lyman. 14 Children 13 Battell Shelter 12 Farmhouses 11 Jay Peak 11 Smith, Gilbert. 10 Birch Glen Camp 10 Boats and boating 10 Emily Proctor Shelter 10 Killington Peak 10 Surveying -- Instruments 9 Farms 9 Lincoln Mountain 9 Montclair Glen Lodge 9 Nebraska Notch 9 Taylor Lodge 8 Barnes Camp 8 Bread Loaf Mountain 8 Bridges 8 Cooley Glen Shelter 8 Cows 7 Bolton Lodge 7 Burnham, Rogers. 7 Lake Mansfield 6 Canoes and canoeing 6 Lake of the Clouds 6 Molly Stark Mountain 6 Mount Ethan Allen 6 Sterling Pond 5 Carmel Camp 5 Gilbert, Connie. 5 Kurth, Hilda 5 Lincoln Peak 5 Mount Hunger 5 Norris, Kathleen 5 Olney, Ward. 5 Robbins, Catherine 5 Town of Bristol 5 Winooski River 4 Bromley Mountain 4 Horses 4 Hotels 4 Jeffersonville 4 Mount Horrid 4 Pleiad Shelter 4 Puffer, Louis. 4 Taylor, James P. 4 Town of Bennington 3 Beaver Meadow 3 Belvidere Mountain 3 City of Burlington 3 Flood damage 3 Flowers 3 Hell Hollow Brook 3 Horses. 3 Joiner Brook 3 Madonna Peak 3 Mount Grant 3 Mount Roosevelt 3 Pleiad Lake 3 Prospect Rock 3 Ritterbush Camp 3 Sucker Brook Shelter 3 Town of Huntington 3 Town of Johnson 3 Town of Stowe 3 Town of Underhill 3 Town of Warren 3 White Rocks 2 Bingham Falls 2 Bliss, Fred. 2 Bourn Pond 2 Boyce Shelter 2 Chamberlain, Allen b. 1867. 2 Dams 2 Journeys End Camp 2 Lincoln Gap 2 Middlebury Gap 2 Morses Mill 2 Mount Carmel 2 Mount Ira Allen 2 Mount Wilson 2 Noyes Pond 2 Round Top 2 Sherburne Pass 2 Stratton Mountain 2 Stratton Pond 2 Theron Dean Shelter 2 Three Shanties Brook 2 Town of Duxbury 2 Town of Killington 2 Town of Shrewsbury 2 Town of Waitsfield 1 Appalachian Gap 1 Barns 1 Battell Trail 1 Big Spring 1 Boats and boating. 1 Button Hill 1 Carpenter, Grace. 1 Carpenter, Molly. 1 Chamberlain Glen 1 Chilcoot Pass 1 Chittenden Reservoir 1 City of Rutland 1 Clarendon Gorge 1 Congdon, Herbert Wheaton 1876-1965 1 Cowles Cove Shelter 1 Cowles, Clarence P. (Clarence Porter) 1875-1963 1 Dorset Mountain 1 Downer Glen 1 Elephants Head 1 Fay Fuller Camp 1 French Hill 1 Glastenbury Camp 1 Green Mountain 1 Griffith Shelter 1 Harmon Hill 1 Haystack Mountain 1 Hazens Notch 1 Interior architecture 1 Jerusalem 1 Laura Woodward Camp 1 Little Rock Pond 1 Mendon Peak 1 Middlesex Center 1 Molly Stark Trail 1 Monroe, W. S. (Will Seymour) 1863-1939 1 Moulds Lodge 1 Mount Pisgah 1 New Haven River 1 North Pond 1 Parker Camp 1 Pico Pond 1 Ritterbush Pond 1 Somerset Reservoir 1 Spring Lake 1 Sterling Range 1 Styles Peak 1 Sugarloaf Mountain 1 Swimming 1 Town of Glastenbury 1 Town of Goshen 1 Town of Lincoln 1 Town of Mendon 1 Town of Montgomery 1 Town of Plymouth 1 Town of Starksboro 1 Town of Wallingford 1 Town of Woodstock

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918 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Trail on the north slope of Bolton Mountain
Trail on the north slope of Bolton Mountain
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    • Date Created: 1920-08
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Daniel Webster Marker erected by the Stratton Mountain Club on August 10, 1915
    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
      Miniature of Theron Dean on the chin of Mount Mansfield
      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
        Miniature of Plymouth from the east
        Plymouth from the east
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          • Description: Negative by Richardson. Colored by Mrs. Perry.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Summit of Camel's Hump
          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
            Miniature of Looking North from the chin of Mount Mansfield
            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
              Miniature of Cowles and L.L. Little going up the north side of the chin on Mount Mansfield
              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
                Miniature of Camel's Hump Club Huts
                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
                  Miniature of Two adults and a child outside a lodge
                  Two adults and a child outside a lodge
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                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Summit House on Mount Mansfield
                    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