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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Smugglers' Notch cliffs from Mould's Trail to Sterling Pond
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- Date Created: 1920-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Approach to Cooley Glen from the South
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- Date Created: 1919-09
- Description: Pictured is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Congdon lookout - Mount Abraham from Mount Ulysses Grant
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- Date Created: 1918-08
- Description: Pictured are Herbert Wheaton Congdon and Allen Smith.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Leverett Smith and porcupine at Dunsmoor Lodge
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- Date Created: 1920-08-25 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
The best part of the trip!
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- Date Created: 1922?
- Description: Pictured is Fred Bliss.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Coming thunder storm looking from Camel's Hump to Lake Champlain
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- Date Created: 1919-07
- Description: Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Rural Free Delivery man and Ward Olney at Goshen Four Corners
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- Date Created: 1921-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Two women camping on the trail
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- Date Created: 1926-02-24 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Hotel on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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- Date Created: 1865
- Description: The photographer, W.H. Ridley of Burlington, told Dean that he was born on July 2, 1862. He is the little boy on the horse at left. He spent the summer of 1865(?) at the hotel with his parents. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs