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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69 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Montclair Glen Lodge
Montclair Glen Lodge
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    • Date Created: 1919-09
    • Description: A view inside Montclair Glen Lodge.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Building a new trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
    Building a new trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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      • Date Created: 1919-08
      • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Cooley Glen from trail to spring
      Cooley Glen from trail to spring
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        • Date Created: 1919-09
        • Description: The person carrying water to the far right of the photograph is Herbert Wheaton Congdon.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Professor Monroe at a guide post at Montclair Glen
        Professor Monroe at a guide post at Montclair Glen
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          • Date Created: 1919-08
          • Description: The signs in the image read: "Birch Lodge 7 3/4 miles" and "Camel's Hump Huts 2 3/4 miles." They both say "GMC" down the side indicating that they were placed there by the Green Mountain Club.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from near the top of Mount Ethan Allen
          Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from near the top of Mount Ethan Allen
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            • Date Created: 1919-09
            • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Leverett T. Smith and Herbert Wheaton Congdon map making on the Moulds Trail from Smugglers' Notch to Sterling Pond
            Leverett T. Smith and Herbert Wheaton Congdon map making on the Moulds Trail from Smugglers' Notch to Sterling Pond
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              • Date Created: 1919?
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Lake Pleiad Lodge
              Lake Pleiad Lodge
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                • Date Created: 1919-09
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) and Montclair Glen from West of Huntington Center
                Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) and Montclair Glen from West of Huntington Center
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                  • Date Created: 1919-09
                  • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of North to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the Worcester Lookout
                  North to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the Worcester Lookout
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                    • Date Created: 1919-09
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of George Parmellee at Cooley Glen Lodge
                    George Parmellee at Cooley Glen Lodge
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                      • Date Created: 1919-09
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs