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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5 Long Trail Photographs
Miniature of Indian Pipe Fern
Indian Pipe Fern
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    • Description: Text included with this images states that the Indian Pipe Fern is: "A first cousin of the Christmas Fern as fronds remain green all winter. It was known in Europe for many years but not found in America until Frederick Pursh found it in Smugglers Notch in 1807. It has since been found in the White Mountains, Easthills, and Adirondaks and New Brunswick."
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
    Miniature of Southeast from Burnt Rock Mountain
    Southeast from Burnt Rock Mountain
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      • Date Created: 1930-12-10 00:00:00
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
      Miniature of Sleighride in Woodstock
      Sleighride in Woodstock
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        • Date Created: 1930
        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
        Miniature of Laurence and Alberta Dean on Mount Abraham
        Laurence and Alberta Dean on Mount Abraham
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          • Date Created: 1930
          • Description: Photo taken in July or August 1930.
          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
          Miniature of Long Trail Lodge 2,220 feet - Mount Pico in the distance
          Long Trail Lodge 2,220 feet - Mount Pico in the distance
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            • Date Created: 1930-04
            • Description: The slide was recolored on May 11, 1930 for 75 cents.
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs