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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79 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Rocks south of Mount Hunger
Rocks south of Mount Hunger
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    • Date Created: 1921-10-02 00:00:00
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Stratton Mountain from Stratton Pond looking East
    Stratton Mountain from Stratton Pond looking East
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      • Description: The elevation at the point where this photo was taken is 3859 feet. The slide was colored by "K." in Feb, 1929.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of 30 foot steel tower on Bolton Mountain
      30 foot steel tower on Bolton Mountain
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        • Date Created: 1921
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Mount Horrid cliff
        Mount Horrid cliff
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          • Date Created: 1921-08
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Looking West from Killington Peak at Mendon Peak
          Looking West from Killington Peak at Mendon Peak
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            • Date Created: 1921-08
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of "Stub" Mould on Whiteface Mountain from trail over White Rocks
            "Stub" Mould on Whiteface Mountain from trail over White Rocks
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              • Date Created: 1921-10-01 00:00:00
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Near sunset from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
              Near sunset from Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                • Date Created: 1921
                • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the top of Bolton Mountain
                Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) from the top of Bolton Mountain
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                  • Date Created: 1921-10-24 00:00:00
                  • Description: Original title cites "Dunsmoor and Dean" most likely referring to the Dunsmoor Lodge. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of White Rocks Mountain from Button Hill
                  White Rocks Mountain from Button Hill
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                    • Date Created: 1921-08-13 00:00:00
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Ward Olney, Leverett Smith and the porkie (porcupine) near Mount Carmel
                    Ward Olney, Leverett Smith and the porkie (porcupine) near Mount Carmel
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                      • Date Created: 1921-08-05 00:00:00
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs