Repository: Museum of the White Mountains at Plymouth State University
Collection number: MWM2010.0001
Creator/ Collector: Daniel “Dan” A. Noel
Collection title: Daniel A. Noel White Mountains Collection
Dates: 1831-2000 [bulk 1870-1980]
Extent: 121 boxes (46.04 linear feet), and 1 flat file drawer
Abstract
The Dan Noel Collection is the Founding Collection of the Museum of the White Mountains. In 2010, the late Daniel Noel, a life-long New Hampshire resident, White Mountains photographer, and collector, gave Plymouth State University his lifetime collection of White Mountains related materials. The collection includes thousands of archival materials and images, including rare glass-plate photographs, stereoscopic images, hotel ledgers, postcards, early and first edition books about the region, bird’s-eye views and maps, framed Bartlett prints, paintings, and other significant White Mountains ephemera.
Acquisition information
The collection was presented to Plymouth State University by the donor in February 2010.
Language(s): Collection materials are in English
Processed by: MWM Staff, 2011-2015. Finding aid written by Rebecca Enman, 2021.
Biographical Information
Daniel “Dan” Noel of Invervale, New Hampshire, was born on January 2, 1941. Noel attended Kennett High School and graduated from North Yarmouth Academy. He went on to attend R.I.T. where he would pursue his life-long passion of photography. After college, Noel returned to the Valley and worked as a freelance photographer. He was a dedicated volunteer to the North Conway Fire Department, and retired as the Captain of Engine 3 after 26 years of service.
Over the course of his lifetime in New Hampshire, Noel’s passion for the White Mountains grew and he built an impressive collection of photographs (including rare glass-plate and stereoscopic images), postcards, hotel ledgers, first-edition and other early books, maps, prints, and paintings—all relating to his beloved White Mountains.
Shortly before his death, in February 2010 Noel presented his collection to Plymouth State University. The gift of this founding collection to the Museum of the White Mountains inspired other collectors to donate of books, photographs, artwork, and White Mountain memorabilia of the grand hotels and other tourism destinations.
Scope and Content Note
The Noel collection is arranged in 121 boxes of varying sizes and is a total of 46.04 linear feet, plus 1 flat file drawer. The collection is organized into 6 series
SERIES I. GENERAL WHITE MOUNTAINS, contains view books and illustrated pamphlets, as well as guides mostly pertaining to the Eastern Slope region, in addition to exhibition catalogs featuring White Mountain art and painters, unframed lithographs, souvenirs, and sheet music. Select materials have been digitized and uploaded to the Museum’s online digital collections page. Also includes issues of the following magazine publications: Eastern Slope Regionnaire, New Hampshire Profiles, White Mountain Outlook, The Enterprise of the North Country of New Hampshire, AMC Outdoors, The New Hampshire Troubadour, and Northern NH Magazine.
SERIES II. WHITE MOUNTAIN HOTEL RECORDS contains various White Mountain hotel ledgers, receipt books, inventories, letters, and registers. The earliest item in this series is the Samuel Thompson Tavern Ledger, 1862-1864. Many items are undated, but the bulk of the materials date from between 1891- 1945.
SERIES III. PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTCARDS, contains photographs, postcards, stereoviews, glass plate negatives, and lantern slides depicting the White Mountains region. Accession included original glass plate transparencies from the studio of noted North Conway photographer, Thomas Edward Milliken White, which arrived in their original wooden storage crates. Materials in this series are being digitized and uploaded to the Museum’s online digital collections page: https://hub.catalogit.app/10447
SERIES IV. FRAMED WORKS. This series contains framed artworks and drawings. Part of MWM’s Teaching Collection.
SERIES V. BOOKS. Materials in this series are being cataloged by Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library, and can be found by searching the library’s online public access catalog: http://library.plymouth.edu/
SERIES VI. OBJECTS. This series contains a vintage camera, traveling case, film, and other related objects. Miscellaneous additional materials are located in the flat file drawer in the Museum.
Contents Listing
1.04 linear feet (5 boxes)
This series contains White Mountain view books and illustrated pamphlets, as well as guides mostly pertaining to the Eastern Slope region, in addition to exhibition catalogs featuring White Mountain art and painters, unframed lithographs, souvenirs, and sheet music. Also includes issues of the following magazine publications: Eastern Slope Regionnaire, New Hampshire Profiles, White Mountain Outlook, The Enterprise of the North Country of New Hampshire, AMC Outdoors, The New Hampshire Troubadour, and Northern NH Magazine. Item level inventory is available. See catalog records for folder/ box information.
Art Catalogues
- “A Sweet Foretaste of Heaven” Artists in the White Mountains 1830-1930, 1988
- A Century of Art in the White Mountains, 1965
- A Climate for Art: the History of the Boston Athenaeum Gallery, 1827-1873, 1980
- Aaron Draper Shattuck, N.A. 1832-1928: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1970
- American Paintings: works in oil and water colors by the late R. Swain Gifford, N.A., 1906
- An American Visionary: Watercolors and Drawings of Charles E. Burchfeld, 1987
- Catalogue of Paintings by John J. Enneking W, 2003
- Edward Hill: A Man of His Time (1843 – 1923), 1985
- Full of Facts and Sentiment: The Art of Frank H. Shapleigh, 1982
- Jasper Francis Cropsey 1823-1900: Retrospective Exhibition, 1964
- Nineteenth Century Landscape Painting of the White Mountains at the White Mountain School, Littleton, New Hampshire, 1976
- Painting in the White Mountains 1820-1900: The Bicentennial of Tamworth, New Hampshire 1766-1966
- The Currier Gallery of Art Bulletin Number 1 – 1971
- The Currier Gallery of Art Bulletin Number 2 – 1973
- The White Mountains: Place and Perceptions, 1980-1981
- Then and Now: The World of Benjamin Champney, 1976
- William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr. 1879-1926, 1984
- Winslow Homer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 1959
Lithographs/ Art [have all been digitized and uploaded to the digital collections page]:
- Aneisdlers Blockhaus (Nordamerica) Settler Log Cabin (North America)
- Chocorua’s Curse
- Old Pub St. Georges, Bermuda [drawing]
- Pulpit Rock (White Mountains), 1839
- The Notch House, White Mountains
- The Shop in the Woods – North Conway, New Hampshire
- The Silver Cascade: In the Notch of the White Mountains
- View Near North Conway (New Hampshire)
- View of the White Mountains from Shelburne
- White Mountains, New Hampshire, 1831
General
- A Brief History of the Conway Historical Society’s House and of William K. Eastman, the Man Who Built It, 1967
- A Cookbook of Choice Recipes, 1966
- Annual Report of the Officers of the Town of Conway New Hampshire for the fiscal year ending 1964
- Carroll Reed Shops advertisement
- Crawford Notch Study: Prepared in conjunction with the Crawford House Site Committee for The Appalachian Mountain Club, 1908
- Deluxe Hotels of New England, 1914
- Facts Concerning The Willey House Development in the Crawford Notch
- Franconia Notch, White Mountains, NH
- Indian Mounds Camp: Souvenir Menu
- Iron Mountain House Souvenir
- New Hampshire Land of Scenic Splendor
- North Conway and Vicinity
- North Conway Intervale and Kearsarge in the White Mountains New Hampshire: The Year-Round Vacation Towns, 1960
- Northeast Historic Film Newsletter
- Picturesque America Part 2, 1874
- Picturesque America Part 7, 1872
- Picturesque America Part 8, 1872
- Picturesque North Conway, 1889
- Public Auction: The Crawford House, 1976
- Railroad Tickets
- Scenic Gems of the White Mountains
- Skiing and Sledding
- Statement: North Conway Loan and Banking Co.
- Telephone Almanac, 1931
- The Barnstormers present “Rhinoceros”, August 21, 1962
- The Conway Daily Sun: Checking into the Kearsarge 92 years later, 2009
- The White Mountains of New Hampshire: the Land of Scenic Splendor
- Views of the White Mountains, 1904
- Views of the White Mountains, 1912
- With Pen and Camera thro’ the White Mountains, 1902
Publications
- AMC Outdoors, March 2004
- Appalachia, June 1941
- Dreaming of Old New Hampshire, 1929
- Eastern Slope Horse Show and Mt. Cranmore Carnival, August 1950
- Eastern Slope Horse Show and Mt. Cranmore Carnival, August 1953
- Eastern Slope Horse Show, August 1952
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire, December 1941. Volume 1, Number 1.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire, Winter 1942-43. Volume 2, Number 1.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Summer 1949. Volume 9, Number 1.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Summer 1955. Volume 15, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Summer 1955. Volume 15, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Winter 1949-1950. Volume 9, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Winter 1950-1951. Volume 10, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Winter 1951-1952. Volume 11, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Winter 1952-1953. Volume 12, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire from the White Mountains of New Hampshire, Winter 1953-1954. Volume 13, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire, From the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Winter 1946-1947. Volume 6, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Regionnaire, From the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Winter 1948-1949. Volume 8, Number 2.
- Eastern Slope Ski Club: First Annual Snow Ball
- Flight Without Wings, February 1989
- Harper’s New Monthly Magazine No. 353, October 1879
- New England Ski Museum Newsletter Issue 54, Summer 2001
- New Hampshire Profiles, August 1977
- New Hampshire Profiles, Volume 2, Number 4. April 1953
- New Hampshire Profiles. Volume 2, Number 11. November 1953
- New Hampshire Profiles. Volume 3, Number 6. June 1954
- New Hampshire Profiles. Volume 9, Number 7. July 1960
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine April 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine August 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine December 1997
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine December 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine February 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine February 1999
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine February 1999
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine January 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine July 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine June 1996
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine June 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine June 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine March 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine May 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine November 1997
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine October 1997
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine October 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine October 1998
- Northern New Hampshire Magazine September 1998
- Outlook: The Magazine of the White Mountain Region of New Hampshire, Fall 1983
- Ski Illustrated Volume 8, Number 1, December 1943
- Spatters, November 1949
- The Enterprise of the North Country of New Hampshire, 1982
- The Granite Monthly, Volume XX, Number 6
- The Mountain Ear, May 2008
- The National Geographic Magazine: New England Ski Trails, 1946
- The New Hampshire Troubadour, April 1945
- The New Hampshire Troubadour, May 1949
- The New Hampshire Troubadour, September 1949
- Tourist Trade, June 1952
- White Mountain Outlook, August 15, 1940
- White Mountain Outlook, August 17, 1939
- White Mountain Outlook, August 24, 1939
- White Mountain Outlook, July 18, 1940
- White Mountain Outlook, July 20, 1939
- White Mountains Outlook, August 29, 1940
- Yankee, January 1964
30.023 linear feet (72 boxes)
This series contains various White Mountain hotel ledgers, receipt books, inventories, letters, and registers. The earliest item in this series is the Samuel Thompson Tavern Ledger, 1862-1864. Many items are undated, but the bulk of the materials date from between 1891- 1945.
Also included in this series are ledgers from hotels not located in New Hampshire that were owned and/ or operated by the Barron, Merrill and Barron Hotel Company. For nearly 80 years, the Barron family was celebrated for being premier hotel keepers in the White Mountains. Asa Barron, a wealthy landowner from Vermont, formed the Barron, Merrill & Barron Co., which operated five of the region’s most celebrated hotels through the years: the Twin Mountain House, Fabyan House, second Mount Washington Summit House, Crawford House, and the Mount Pleasant House. Materials include Hotel Westminster ledgers. Col. William A. Barron was proprietor of Hotel Westminster located in Boston, which was later demolished in the 1960s to build the John Hancock Tower.
Boxes have been arranged on the shelves according to their size and type
Description | Box # | Folder # |
---|---|---|
Barron House store room ledger, 1926 | 49 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1927 | 49 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1928 | 49 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1931 | 60 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1932 | 62 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1934 | 62 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1935 | 62 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1936 | 61 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1937 | 61 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1938 | 61 | |
Barron House store room ledger, 1939 | 63 | |
Barron House store room ledger, undated | 60 | |
Barron House store room ledger, undated | 60 | |
Barron House store room ledger, undated | 63 | |
Barron, Merrill & Barron Co. cashier’s ledger, June-December, 1928 | 50 | |
Barron, Merrill & Barron Co. check register, undated | 51 | |
Barron, Merrill & Barron Co. check register, undated | 51 | |
Barron, Merrill & Barron Co. misc. letters | 68 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, 1924 | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, 1924 | ||
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, 1925 | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, 1929 | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Barron, Merrill, and Barron Co. check receipts, undated | 59 | |
Conway House register, undated | 68 | |
Crawford House order book for the Station Store, Grill, Marshfield Camp, and golf club, 1927 season | 5 | FF 4 |
Crawford House Canteen ordering book, 1924-1925 seasons | 5 | FF 5 |
Crawford House golf club ledger, 1937-1938 seasons | 5 | FF 1 |
Crawford House guest ledger [loose pages], 1926 | 26 | |
Crawford House guest ledger [loose pages], undated | 27 | |
Crawford House guest ledger, 1930-1931 | 9 | |
Crawford House guest ledger, 1932-1934 | 8 | |
Crawford House guest ledger, undated | 65 | |
Crawford House guest register, 1898 | 55 | |
Crawford House invoice records, 1931 | 12 | |
Crawford House invoices [loose], 1899 | 54 | |
Crawford House invoices [loose], 1930 | 40 | |
Crawford House invoices [loose], 1938 | 42 | |
Crawford House invoices [loose], 1938 | 43 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1896 | 18 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1897 | 67 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1924 | 45 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1929 | 67 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1936 | 35 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1937 | 17 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1937-1938 | 15 | |
Crawford House invoices, 1945 | 16 | |
Crawford House laundry book, undated | 64 | |
Crawford House laundry ledger, June-August, 1930 | 5 | FF 2 |
Crawford House ledger, 1918 | 53 | |
Crawford House order book, 1927 | 64 | |
Crawford House order book, undated | 64 | |
Crawford House ordering book for the Canteen, Station Store, and golf club, 1925 season | 5 | FF 6 |
Crawford House register [loose pages], 1936 | 15 | |
Crawford House register [loose pages], 1937-1938 | 15 | |
Crawford House register, undated | 41 | |
Crawford House register, undated | 41 | |
Crawford House register, undated | 41 | |
Crawford House Station Store order book, 1932 -1933 seasons | 5 | FF 3 |
Crawford House telephone calls, undated | 57 | |
Crawford House telephone calls, undated | 57 | |
Fabyan House guest charges ledger, 1939 | 14 | |
Fabyan House guest charges, undated | 33 | |
Fabyan House guest charges, undated | 33 | |
Fabyan House guest charges, undated | 33 | |
Fabyan House guest charges, undated | 33 | |
Fabyan House guest charges, undated | 39 | |
Fabyan House guest charges, undated | 39 | |
Fabyan House guest ledger, 1929 | 56 | |
Fabyan House guest ledger, 1931 | 14 | |
Fabyan House guest ledger, 1932-33 | 14 | |
Fabyan House guest register [loose], undated | 39 | |
Fabyan House guest register, undated | 39 | |
Fabyan House invoice records, 1932-1934 | 14 | FF 1 |
Fabyan House invoices [loose], 1913 | 28 | |
Fabyan House invoices [loose], 1923 | 31 | |
Fabyan House invoices [loose], 1927 | 25 | |
Fabyan House invoices [loose], 1927 | 30 | |
Fabyan House invoices [loose], 1930 | 32 | |
Fabyan House invoices, 1928 | 21 | |
Fabyan House invoices, 1932 | 36 | |
Fabyan House invoices, undated | 36 | |
Fabyan House invoices, undated | 36 | |
Fabyan House ledger, 1929 | 7 | |
Fabyan House personnel lists, 1905-1933 | 7 | |
Fabyan House, guest ledger, 1930 | 56 | |
Fabyan’s supplies & services ledger, 1928 | 34 | |
Fabyan’s supplies & services ledger, undated | 34 | |
Fabyan’s supplies ledger, 1929 | 34 | |
Fabyan’s supplies ledger, 1930 | 34 | |
Fabyan’s supply ledger, 1921 | 34 | |
Belleview Hotel, arrivals and departures ledger, 1900 | 52 | FF 2 |
Belleview Hotel, loose papers | 52 | FF 3 |
Hotel Westminster guest charges, 1900 | 48 | |
Hotel Westminster guest charges, 1901 | 48 | |
Hotel Westminster guest charges, 1901 | 48 | |
Hotel Westminster guest charges, 1902 | 38 | |
Hotel Westminster, 1903 | 38 | |
Kearsage Hall, Registration book, 1894-1904 | 6 | |
Kearsarge Hall guest ledger, 1930-1932 | 10 | |
Kearsarge Hall guest ledger, 1945-1955 | 11 | |
Kearsarge Hall incoming/ outgoing payments ledger, 1954-1957 | 11 | |
Kroflite Camp invoice records, 1926 | 13 | FF 2 |
Kroflite Camp ledger, 1925-1930 | 13 | FF 1 |
Moat Mountain House register, undated | 37 | |
Moat Mountain House register, undated | 37 | |
Moat Mountain House, register, undated | 37 | |
Pendexter Mansion cash book, 1932 | 58 | |
Pendexter Mansion cash book, undated | 58 | |
Pendexter Mansion ledger, undated | 58 | |
Pendexter Mansion loose papers, undated | 58 | FF 1 |
Pendexter Mansion register, undated | 58 | |
Samuel Thompson Tavern Ledger, 1862-1864 | 4 | FF1 |
Summit House invoices, 1888 | 68 | |
Summit House invoices, 1892 | 44 | |
Summit House invoices, 1894 | 71 | |
Summit House invoices, 1895 | 69 | |
Summit House invoices, 1898 | 69 | |
Summit House invoices, 1925 | 29 | |
Summit House invoices, 1927 | 66 | |
The Clarendon guest ledger, 1891-1894 | 11 | |
Twin Mountain House guest ledger, 1936 | 22 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1922 | 23 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1923 | 23 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1924 | 22 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1926 | 20 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1927-1928 | 19 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1927-1928 | 19 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1929 | 20 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1932 | 20 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1934-1935 | 19 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1937 | 22 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1940 | 47 | |
Twin Mountain House invoices, 1941 | 46 | |
Unidentified organization business ledger, 1898-1907 | 6 | |
Unidentified organization, business ledger, 1900-1901 | 6 | |
Unidentified organization, business ledger, 1903-1907 | 6 | |
Unidentified organization, cash record, 1894 | 68 | |
Unidentified organization, cash record, 1898 | 68 | |
Unidentified organization, cash record, undated | 68 | |
Unidentified organization, guest charges ledger [possibly Fabyan House], 1939-1940 | 14 | |
Unidentified organization, guest ledger [possibly Fabyan House], 1938 | 14 | |
Unidentified organization, guest ledger, undated | 72 | |
Unidentified organization, hotel register, 1936 | 68 | |
Unidentified organization, ledger of payments, 1928-1930 | 7 | |
Unidentified organization, ledger of payments, 1930 | 7 | |
Unidentified organization, ledger of payments, 1931 | 7 | |
Unidentified organization, ledger of payments, 1932-1933 | 7 | |
Unidentified organization, package book, 1904 | 70 | |
Unidentified organization, package book, 1904 | 70 | |
Unidentified organization, package book, 1904 | 70 | |
Unidentified organization, receipt book [golf], undated | 64 | |
Unidentified organization, Station Store loose invoices, 1930 | 24 | |
Whittemore’s Patent House counts, undated | 52 | FF 1 |