The iconography of the early White Mountain resort hotels, 1825-1875 :prints, photographs, and maps: Historical New Hampshire / David Tatham.

Title:

The iconography of the early White Mountain resort hotels, 1825-1875 :prints, photographs, and maps: Historical New Hampshire / David Tatham.

Author:

Tatham, David.

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1995.

Physical Description:

p. [66] - 79.

Source:

Vol. 50, No. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1995) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

Much of the available information about the early White Mountain resort hotels comes from three types of printed pictures. Artist-drawn pictures, printed as wood or metal engravings, appeared as early as 1852 and decorated hotel letterheads and illustrated advertising flyers. Photographic images appeared in quantity from the late 1860's to the end of the century, mainly in the form of stereograph cards. Pictorial maps, the smallest category of printed pictures, consisted of maps published for tourists. One series of maps stands out. These were drawn and published by Franklin Leavitt, a farmer, mountain guide, self-published doggerel poet, and wholly untrained artist-cartographer. Leavitt designed and published six different maps of the White Mountains between 1852 and 1882. His maps were cartographically ludicrous, but they transmit a passion rarely found in prints and photographs.

Language:

English.

Locations:

White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Maps.
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Photographs.
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Pictorial works.
White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Hotels.

People:

Leavitt, Dudley, 1772-1851.

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