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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73 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Trees and cloudy sky
Trees and cloudy sky
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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
    Miniature of Guardsmen taking a break along the trail
    Guardsmen taking a break along the trail
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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. The man standing in this photo may be Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Couple in entryway
      Couple in entryway
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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
        Miniature of Small overgrown camp
        Small overgrown camp
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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
          Miniature of Congdon party walking down a dirt road
          Congdon party walking down a dirt road
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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
            Miniature of Men climbing a fence
            Men climbing a fence
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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
              Miniature of Herbert Wheaton Congdon in uniform
              Herbert Wheaton Congdon in uniform
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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
                Miniature of Man at tent doing laundry
                Man at tent doing laundry
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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
                  Miniature of The King Rock at Smugglers' Notch
                  The King Rock at Smugglers' Notch
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                    • Date Created: 1914-09-03 00:00:00
                    • Description: The person pictured may be Willis Barnes.
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Scrub pines and trail
                    Scrub pines and trail
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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