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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14 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Loveland and Burtis Dean at the Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
Loveland and Burtis Dean at the Dean Panorama on Stark Mountain
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    • Date Created: 1922-07-30 00:00:00
    • Description: The mountain in the distance is Camel's Hump (previously called "Couching Lion).
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Alex putting out a fire at Camp Necessity
    Alex putting out a fire at Camp Necessity
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      • Date Created: 1922
      • 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 Red Crossbill at Mount Ellen
      Red Crossbill at Mount Ellen
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        • Date Created: 1922-08
        • Description: Pictured in this image is Fred Bliss.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Carmel Camp porcupine chews
        Carmel Camp porcupine chews
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          • Date Created: 1922-08
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Bolton Ferry looking North
          Bolton Ferry looking North
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            • Date Created: 1922-08-09 00:00:00
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Carmel Camp - note hedgehog chews!
            Carmel Camp - note hedgehog chews!
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              • Date Created: 1922-08
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Where does sap come from? Miss Florence Jones of Waitsfield and her Papa
              Where does sap come from? Miss Florence Jones of Waitsfield and her Papa
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                • Date Created: 1922
                • Description: Florence Jones was born on July 19, 1919 and was three years old in this photograph.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Captain Kempie on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
                Captain Kempie on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                  • Date Created: 1922
                  • Description: The women in the photo are identified as: Upper row: "Captain Kempie" and "Alpine Alice" (Alice Speetzen) Lower row: "1st Lieutenant 'Loot'" (Ethel A. Savacool), "Babe Ruth" (Ruth Gaiger) "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Where does sap come from? Miss Florence Jones of Waitsfield and her Papa
                  Where does sap come from? Miss Florence Jones of Waitsfield and her Papa
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                    • Date Created: 1922
                    • Description: Florence Jones was born on July 19, 1919 and was three years old in this photograph.
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Last stretch up the south side of Camel's Hump
                    Last stretch up the south side of Camel's Hump
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                      • Date Created: 1922
                      • Description: Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs