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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16 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Map of Vermont's Long Trail
Map of Vermont's Long Trail
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    • Date Created: 1929-02-14 00:00:00
    • Description: This is a hand drawn map of the Long Trail. The map includes mountain and lodge names along the trail. The text at the bottom of the map reads: "The Long Trail, A Footpath in the Wilderness over the skyline of the Green Mountain Range." Negative and slide done by Clark on February 14, 1929.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
    Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
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      • Date Created: 1929-09
      • Description: Photo taken by Andy's father, Professor R.O. Buchanan of Burlington, Vermont.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Field and Mount Mansfield
      Field and Mount Mansfield
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        • Date Created: 1929-02-01 00:00:00
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Clouds, mountain, and field
        Clouds, mountain, and field
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          • Date Created: 1929-07-18 00:00:00
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Mount Abraham from the South
          Mount Abraham from the South
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            • Date Created: 1929-02-01 00:00:00
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
            Miniature of Long Trail Lodge and Pico looking south from Deer's Leap
            Long Trail Lodge and Pico looking south from Deer's Leap
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              • Date Created: 1929-09-28 00:00:00
              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
              Miniature of Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
              Andy R. Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
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                • Date Created: 1929-09
                • Description: Photo taken by Andy's father, Professor R.O. Buchanan of Burlington, Vermont. Slide made January 2, 1930 by Clark.
                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                Miniature of Professor Buchanan and Andy Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
                Professor Buchanan and Andy Buchanan en route to Bolton Lodge
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                  • Date Created: 1929-09
                  • Description: Pictured here is Professor Buchanan and a boy that is identified elsewhere in this collection as Andy Buchanan. The original slide states that Andy is here 2 1/2 years old and that they have walked two of the four miles to the lodge. Slide done by Clark on January 2, 1930.
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                  Miniature of Thunderstorm
                  Thunderstorm
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                    • Description: Original photograph and slide by "Snowflake" Bentley. Colored by "K."
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
                    Miniature of Camp Thendara's
                    Camp Thendara's
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                      • Date Created: 1929
                      • Description: Pictured in this image are: Professor Louis Puffer on the left, Major Jenlas in the center and Bob Aikon on the right. Negative by Puffer. Slide done by Eldred in September, 1931. Colored by Mrs. Perry in September 1931.
                      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs