Identifying the White Mountain tourist, 1853-1854 :origin, occupation, and wealth as a definition of the early hotel trade: Historical New Hampshire / Peter B. Bulkley.

Title:

Identifying the White Mountain tourist, 1853-1854 :origin, occupation, and wealth as a definition of the early hotel trade: Historical New Hampshire / Peter B. Bulkley.

Author:

Bulkley, Peter B.,

Call Number:

977.8 N5321h

Publication Information:

Concord, NH: New Hampshire Historical Society, 1980.

Physical Description:

p. [106] - 162.

Source:

Vol. 35, No. 2 (Summer, 1980) Historical New Hampshire.

Description:

Early White Mountains tourists were long assumed to have been the nation's social elite. The Tip Top House register, 1853-54, suggests a somewhat different picture. Some 56% of Tip Top visitors sampled were New Englanders, 23% were from the Middle Atlantic States, and only 1.5% were foreigners. Outside of New England, only 6.5% came from towns of fewer than 5,000 people, suggesting that travel beyond the 150-mile range "increasingly became a function of wealth." Slightly more than one-half of all tourists were from the highest ranking occupational levels, but 10% were farmers, and 20% were laborers.

Language:

English.

Locations:

White Mountains (N.H. and Me.) Tourism 19th century.
Washington, Mount.

Organizations:

Tip Top House.

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