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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Taft Lodge
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- Date Created: 1926-04
- Description: The negative of this slide was done by Louis Puffer.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Three Shanties Camp looking southwest from the trail
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- Date Created: 1921-08
- Description: The person in this image is unidentified.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Cooley Lodge interior
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- Date Created: 1919-09
- Description: The person in this photo is identified as George Parmelee. A sign on the wall reads "Cooley Glen Lodge: This Lodge is the gift of Professor Will S. Monroe and the New York Section of the Green Mt. Club. Members and friends to have use of same [illegible] and hang up the cooking utensils before you leave. Chop as much wood as you use. Leave the camp in good condition. The Green Mt. Club."
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Cowles building a lunch fire at Big Spring
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- Date Created: 1920-02-22 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Men setting up tents and campsite
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- Date Created: 1914
- Description: This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Man cooking over camp fire
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- Date Created: 1914
- Description: This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs