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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47 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Lake and mountain view
Lake and mountain view
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    • Date Created: 1926-08-06 00:00:00
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of East from Dean Shelter
    East from Dean Shelter
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      • Date Created: 1926
      • Description: Slide colored by Mrs. Perry in 1929.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Taft Lodge and snow
      Taft Lodge and snow
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        • Date Created: 1926-04-10 00:00:00
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Mount Mansfield chin from the nose
        Mount Mansfield chin from the nose
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          • Date Created: 1926-05-06 00:00:00
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
          Big Birch in Smugglers' Notch
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            • Date Created: 1926-05-20 00:00:00
            • Description: Original notation states that this birch is 1 1/2 miles south of the Barnes Camp. Pictured in this image are: 1. Mr. Hartwell, 2. Mrs. L.S. Dean under the tree, 3. L.S. Dean at left(?), 4. Mrs. Hartwell(?). Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on November 16, 1924.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Helen Jones and Connie Gilbert on Burnt Rock Mountain
            Helen Jones and Connie Gilbert on Burnt Rock Mountain
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              • Date Created: 1926-08
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Lunch near big birches
              Lunch near big birches
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                • Date Created: 1926?
                • Description: Pictured are (from left to right): . Connie Gilbert, Herbert Wheaton Congdon, Miss Murphy, Helen Jones.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Lodge in the Mount Mansfield Region
                Lodge in the Mount Mansfield Region
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                  • Date Created: 1926?
                  • Description: The only readable sign on the marker pole reads: "Bread Loaf Inn 2."
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Emily Drake Jackson en route to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
                  Emily Drake Jackson en route to Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
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                    • Date Created: 1926-09-19 00:00:00
                    • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) - woman in the foreground
                    Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) - woman in the foreground
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                      • Date Created: 1926
                      • Description: The date given in the original title is Friday, August 25-28, 1926. These dates most likely refer to the dates of the hiking trip on which the photograph was taken. "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs