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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Summit House Hotel on Mount Mansfield: chin in the background
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- Date Created: 1929
- Description: This building is also referred to as the "Vermont Hotel." Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Signs on a spruce at the ruins of Beaver Meadow Cabin
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- Description: The signs in this image read, Baby Stark Mt., General Stark Mt., Glen Ellen of Mount Ellen, Lincoln Mt., Couching Lion, Molly Stark Mt., Birch Glen Lodge, and Starksboro. Slide done by Chas. Beseler Co.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Hound's Tooth on Mount Horrid
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- Description: Colored by Beselars and recolored by Mrs. Perry in March 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Trillium - Grandiflorium
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- Date Created: 1923
- Description: The photographer is Jes Burrows a former Professor at the University of Vermont. Slide colored by Mrs. Perry.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
White and Dean on Killington
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- Date Created: 1922-03-12 00:00:00
- Description: This image is thought to be on Killington, however, "(?)" was included in the original title. The sign in the image reads, "Notice: Please read the rules." The slide was colored by Mrs. Perry in 1924 or 1926.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
New Birch Glen Lodge
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- Date Created: 1929=11
- Description: Birch Glen Lodge was built in the fall of 1929. This photo was taken by Dr. H.C. Taylor in November of 1929. The slide was done by Clark in January of 1930.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Montclair Glen Lodge
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- Date Created: 1922-10-01 00:00:00
- Description: Slide colored by Mrs. Perry on April 1, 1929.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Frost on Jay Peak
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- Description: Negative by Richardson of Newport. Slide made for him Standard Slide Corp. 209 w. 48th N.Y.C.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs
Emily Proctor Lodge as the Professor's headquarters
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- Date Created: 1918-09-01 00:00:00
- Description: Slide provides a Northeast view into Breadloaf Glen.
- Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs