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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58 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Couching Lion from Bolton Mountain
Couching Lion from Bolton Mountain
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    • Date Created: 1917-07-28 00:00:00
    • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Ernest R. Lesage
    Ernest R. Lesage
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      • Date Created: 1917-08-22 00:00:00
      • Description: Ernest R. Lesage shaving at a stop along the trail.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of North from Molly Stark's Balcony looking at Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
      North from Molly Stark's Balcony looking at Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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        • Date Created: 1917-02-18 00:00:00
        • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Rogers and Lyman Burnham at Beaver Meadow Cabin
        Rogers and Lyman Burnham at Beaver Meadow Cabin
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          • Date Created: 1917-09
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of A view of Mount Abraham
          A view of Mount Abraham
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            • Date Created: 1917-09-22 00:00:00
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Henry Davis House near Dean
            Henry Davis House near Dean
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              • Date Created: 1917-09
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Glen Ellen Lodge
              Glen Ellen Lodge
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                • Date Created: 1917-07-01 00:00:00
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Lincoln Peak and Mount Ellen from the summit of Mount Abraham
                Lincoln Peak and Mount Ellen from the summit of Mount Abraham
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                  • Date Created: 1917-09
                  • Description: This slide consists of two pictures taken by Allen Chamberlain and put together. The original photograph was taken from the summit of Mount Abraham. At right is Lincoln Peak (1 mile away) and at left is Mount Ellen (3.5 miles away).
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump), Bolton Trail
                  Couching Lion (Camel's Hump), Bolton Trail
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                    • Date Created: 1917-03-05 00:00:00
                    • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Dean at the end of the Professor Monroe Skyline Trail in Glen Ellen
                    Dean at the end of the Professor Monroe Skyline Trail in Glen Ellen
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                      • Date Created: 1917-02-17 00:00:00
                      • Description: The sign in this image reads "Stark Mountain, Birch Glen Lodge, Crouching Lion" with arrows pointing away from Dean. The sign also reads "Lincoln Mountain."
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs