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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Davidson, Miss Cooley, Allen Smith, Professor Monroe, Gilbert Smith at a work party on Mount Wilson
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- Date Created: 1918-08
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Rabbit on Bolton Trail
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- Date Created: 1915-01-02 00:00:00
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Johnson School on Glacier Boulder
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- Description: Those in the party pictured here are Mr. Cherrie and Theron Dean.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
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
Mellinger H. Henry of Dickinson Heights Jersey City at Glen Ellen
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- Description: Slide colored by "Mrs. KY" in 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
South from Mount Ellen looking toward Bread Loaf Mountain
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- Description: Negative and slide by Robert Wilkinson.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Bolton Long Trail sign, looking East at Bolton
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- Date Created: 1923-05-23 00:00:00
- Description: The sign in this image reads: " A footpath in the wilderness Long Trail." Milemarkers attached to the sign read: "Killington 82 M, Camel's Hump 4.5 M, Massachusetts State Line 181.6 M, Montclair Glen 6.5 M, Lincoln Mt. 25.8, Dunsmoor Lodge 5.6 M, Summit Bolton Mt. 6.7 M, Lake Mansfield 9.8 M, Summit 15.4 M, Mt. Mansfield Taft Lodge 17.2 M." The negative was made by Theron Dean on May 6, 1923 and it was colored by Mrs. Perry on February of 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Jay Peak - apple blossoms in June
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- Description: Photo attributed to Mr. Richardson of Newport, Vermont. Negative and slide done by Standard Slide Corp. - 209 W. 48th NYC. Colored by Mrs Perry in February of 1929. Copyrighted negative.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Four men at marker 592
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- Description: The photo is attributed to Puffer and the slide to Eldred. The original title seems to indicate that two of the men pictured are Roy Buchanan his brother-in-law Hardy Puffer. The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry in June 1933.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs