History of the White Mountains:

Book

Museum of the White Mountains

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

MWM2010.0001.2578

Description

This book is a revised edition of a historic guide to the history of the White Mountains published in 1855. The original edition's author proposed the idea of a book of the mountains. The book is broken into sections starting with a geographic description then a history of the Native Americans followed up by the settlement of counties then towns and early settlers. Physical Description: Green colored, hardcover. Title and publishers's insignia on spine of book.

Collection

Dan Noel Collection

Acquisition

Accession

MWM2010.0001

Source or Donor

Dan Noel

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Dan Noel

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

History, County government, Historic trees, Exploration (Prospecting), Settlers, Settlements, Nature, Geography, Historical studies, Historic sites

Search Terms

Mount Washington Carriage Road (Coos county, New Hampshire : road), Washington, Mount (Coos county, New Hampshire : mountain), Mount Washington Cog Railway, Coos (New Hampshire : county), Conway (Carroll county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Gorham (Coos county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Crawford Notch (New Hampshire : valley), Franconia (Grafton county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), Bethlehem (Grafton county, New Hampshire : inhabited place), White Mountains, Native Americans

Book Details

Author

New and Revised Edition, With Illustations by Frederick Thompson., Willey, Benjamin G. & Frederick Thompson

Publisher

Hurd and Houghton

Place Published

City

New York

State/Province

New York

Country

United States of America

Continent

North America

Date Published

1870

Condition

Notes

08/22/2012-CH- Edges of book near spine and lightly wearing and top and bottom of spine and beggining to bend and wear. Lightly stained on front and back cover.