Long Trail Photographs
Collection Overview
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...
Show moreThe 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. These lantern slides were originally digitized by the Landscape Change Program at the University of Vermont. The original slides can be viewed in the Dean and Congdon collections at the University of Vermont Special Collections in the Howe Library. More information about the Long Trail can be obtained from the Green Mountain Club. The slides were scanned by UVM's Landscape Change Program with the generous support of the National Science Foundation. The digitized photographs also appear in the image database at http://www.uvm.edu/landscape/.
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Lesson Plans
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Pages
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- Brush and mountain top
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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This slide comes from a series of photos taken during Herbert Wheaton Congdon's journey along the Long Trail from Mount Mansfield to the Brandon-Rochester Pass in 1914. Accompanying Congdon were three non commissioned officers of the 23rd Regiment NY National Guard, Company A.
- Title
- Brush trail near Noyes Pond
- Date Created
- 1921-08-07
- Description
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The two people in this photo are unidentified.
- Title
- Buchanan boys at 592 marker at the Canadian border
- Description
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Granite marker 592 marks the U.S. / Canadian border on the Long Trail. Pictured are: Roy Buchanan in Canada on the right, son Chester in the center, and Bruce Buchanan on the left in the U.S.A. Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Title
- The Buck Job at the upper end of Downer Glen
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Description
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"Bucking" is a term used for sawing felled trees into logs.
- Title
- Buffum Pond and Griffith Lodge
- Date Created
- 1921-08
- Title
- Building a new trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1919-08
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- Building a new trail on Couching Lion (Camel's Hump)
- Date Created
- 1919-08
- Description
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"Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump.
- Title
- The building of Sucker Brook Lodge
- Description
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The original title identifies "Voter" but does not identify the second man pictured.
- Title
- Burlington Harbor and Rock Point from Battery Park
- Description
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Colored by Miss G.E. Peck of Burlington, Vermont in 1918.
- Title
- Burlington Section of the Green Mountain Club
- Date Created
- 1920-02-23
- Title
- Burnt Rock Mountain
- Date Created
- 1919-09
- Description
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The person in this photograph is identified as "Skidmore Geo. Parmelee."
- Title
- Burnt Rock Mountain from the first knoll and Mount Ira Allen in the distance
- Date Created
- 1918-09
- Description
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The person pictured here is identified as Parmelee.
- Title
- Burnt Rock Mountain from the South
- Date Created
- 1917-09
- Title
- Burtis W. Dean snowshoeing at age 3
- Date Created
- 1914
- Description
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Slide colored by Mrs. Perry November, 1924.
- Title
- Burtis, Cowles, Mr. Badgley (?) and Chris at Taft Lodge
- Date Created
- 1920-08-02
- Description
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The original title states that this was image was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
- Title
- C.J. Badgley and Burtis Dean on the chin of Mount Mansfield
- Date Created
- 1920-06-05
- Description
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Pictured are: Mr. C. J. Badgley from Poughkeepsie, N.Y. - age 75 and and Burtis Dean - age 9. Negative done by Dean on Monday, August 2, 1920. Colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Title
- Cabin and Mr. Killington
- Date Created
- 1921?
- Description
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This cabin was erected on Killington Peak. The image's original title supplied here is humorous.
- Title
- Camel's Hump - southwest side near the top
- Date Created
- 1920
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
- Title
- Camel's Hump and farm
- Title
- Camel's Hump and pond
- Description
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Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."