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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Couching Lion (Camel's Hump) looking west from the summit
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    • Description: "Couching Lion" is the previous name for Camel's Hump. The original slides notes the shadow of Camels Hump over Huntington, Vermont at morning.
    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


    A view of Mount Abraham
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      • Date Created: 1918-09-07 00:00:00
      • Description: Taken from the second lookout south of the Lincoln-Warren Pass.
      • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


      Looking northwest from Battell Lodge at Ellen Mountain
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        • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs



        Trail North from the Lincoln-Warren Pass
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          • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


          Mount Abraham and Eldore Atkins house from the West
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            • Date Created: 1917
            • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


            Champlain Panorama
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              • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


              North from Molly Stark's Balcony
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                • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


                Clarence Cowles looking at the White Mountains from Molly Stark Mountain
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                  • Date Created: 1917-02-18 00:00:00
                  • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs


                  Camel's Hump as it appears from the north slope of Mount Ethan Allen
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                    • Date Created: 1916
                    • Description: This is a view from where one drops down to Montclair Glen. Camel's Hump was previously referred to also as "Couching Lion."
                    • Parent Collections: Long Trail Photographs