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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12 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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    • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
    • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
    Party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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      • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
      • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
      Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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        • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
        • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
        Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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          • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
          • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
          Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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            • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
            • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Bolton Long Trail sign, looking East at Bolton
            Bolton Long Trail sign, looking East at Bolton
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              • Date Created: 1923-05-23 00:00:00
              • Description: The sign in this image reads: " A footpath in the wilderness Long Trail." Milemarkers attached to the sign read: "Killington 82 M, Camel's Hump 4.5 M, Massachusetts State Line 181.6 M, Montclair Glen 6.5 M, Lincoln Mt. 25.8, Dunsmoor Lodge 5.6 M, Summit Bolton Mt. 6.7 M, Lake Mansfield 9.8 M, Summit 15.4 M, Mt. Mansfield Taft Lodge 17.2 M." The negative was made by Theron Dean on May 6, 1923 and it was colored by Mrs. Perry on February of 1929.
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
              Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                • Date Created: 1923-08-22 00:00:00
                • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Alice Dean at Taft Lodge
                Alice Dean at Taft Lodge
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                  • Date Created: 1923-08-30 00:00:00
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Trillium - Grandiflorium
                  Trillium - Grandiflorium
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                    • Date Created: 1923
                    • Description: The photographer is Jes Burrows a former Professor at the University of Vermont. Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
                    Professor Monroe and party on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                      • Description: Pictured are: 1. Alice W. Dean, 2. Professor Monroe, 3. Miss Goodell, 4. Miss Mabel Brounell (back), 5. Miss Kate Hickok, 6. Mr. Harry W. Dewey. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs