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Long Trail Photographs
    • Creator: Congdon, Herbert Wheaton, 1876-1965, Dean, Theron S.
    • Date Created: 2010-03-09
    • Description: 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/


    Main St., West Brattleboro, Vt.
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      • Date Created: 1911
      • Description: Western Avenue (Main Street) looking toward village square.
      • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


      Cong'l. Church, W. Brattleboro, Vt.
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        • Date Created: 1909
        • Description: Looking south on Western Avenue at church front.
        • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


        Onlya Farm, Ames Hill, Vt.
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          • Date Created: 1912
          • Description: See images bmlthayerT41 and bmlthayerT43 also.
          • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


          Auto Parade, Valley Fair, Brattleboro, Vt.
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            • Date Created: 1910
            • Description: Valley Fair automobile parade with onlookers behind a fence and an Opera House advertisement banner. See images bmlthayer T68 & bmlthayer T69 as well.
            • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


            Valley Fair Tumblers with onlookers, Brattleboro, Vt.
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              • Date Created: 1910
              • Description: A show of "tumblers" high up in the distance with onlookers below, as part of the Valley Fair.
              • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


              Portrait of students and teachers in front of the Brookline Round Schoolhouse
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                • Date Created: 1910
                • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


                Edward Pratt and his Oxen with logs, in the snow, Dover, Vt.
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                  • Date Created: 1909
                  • Description: Winter scene of Edward Pratt holding a switch, next to team of oxen, attached to a log sled, more logs in background. See image bmlthayer T89 also.
                  • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


                  Moody's Store in the village of East Dover, Vt. in winter]
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                    • Date Created: 1909
                    • Description: East Dover village and Moody's store in winter - opposite side of Moody's from image bmlthayer T94.
                    • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs


                    Bird's-Eye View, West Dover, Vt.
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                      • Date Created: 1911
                      • Description: Broad view of town of West Dover, with Congregational Church in view.
                      • Parent Collections: Porter C. Thayer Photographs