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(Posted here as it may lead to timeless discussion 
The NH Historical Society has a temporary exhibit "Exhibit - On The Trail: The Photographs of Ralph Larrabee and the AMC", note that this is at their HQ at 30 Park St in Concord not at their museum. Hours are Tue.-Sat. 9:30-5 and I believe it is free but there's a donation box.
Very few of his photographs on display are actually of hiking, the one I found most interesting was somebody rock climbing the face of Giant Stairs. But they have added objects from their collection including a Brownie camera that revolutionized photography, snowshoes and crampons from the 1890s that look remarkably like those still commonly used in the 1970s, and a photograph of the mill in Livermore.
But what was far more interesting to me (and may create endless discussion here) was two maps I don't remember seeing before. One was a non-contour USGS map showing property thus far purchased for the National Forest titled "White Mountain Region May 1915". Among its features, it showed:
* Sandwich Dome with an elevation of 4071 located in Sandwich not Waterville
* Owls Head with an elevation of 2950, presumably the bump I always thought it was
* North Carter with an elevation of 4585 located where the WMG (incorrectly shows Mt Lethe, if you read the Appalachia description of the first Carter Range traverse that sounds like where they put it
* Nash & Sawyers Location at the head of Crawford Notch, which they were awarded for getting a horse through the Notch (with block and tackle)
* Many other vanished places such as Wentworth Rogers Treadwell Location, Hatch & Cleaves Grant, and Carlisles Purchase
The other map was a George T. Crawford map from 1896, in addition to other vanished places it showed:
* Ossipee Mtn in Moultonboro, maybe about where 2782 is
* Cliffs of Bond with elevation and location of what is now W Bond
* Proposed Moosilauke RR to summit with a lot of curves
* Toad Back 3136 W of Paugus
The NH Historical Society has a temporary exhibit "Exhibit - On The Trail: The Photographs of Ralph Larrabee and the AMC", note that this is at their HQ at 30 Park St in Concord not at their museum. Hours are Tue.-Sat. 9:30-5 and I believe it is free but there's a donation box.
Very few of his photographs on display are actually of hiking, the one I found most interesting was somebody rock climbing the face of Giant Stairs. But they have added objects from their collection including a Brownie camera that revolutionized photography, snowshoes and crampons from the 1890s that look remarkably like those still commonly used in the 1970s, and a photograph of the mill in Livermore.
But what was far more interesting to me (and may create endless discussion here) was two maps I don't remember seeing before. One was a non-contour USGS map showing property thus far purchased for the National Forest titled "White Mountain Region May 1915". Among its features, it showed:
* Sandwich Dome with an elevation of 4071 located in Sandwich not Waterville
* Owls Head with an elevation of 2950, presumably the bump I always thought it was
* North Carter with an elevation of 4585 located where the WMG (incorrectly
shows Mt Lethe, if you read the Appalachia description of the first Carter Range traverse that sounds like where they put it* Nash & Sawyers Location at the head of Crawford Notch, which they were awarded for getting a horse through the Notch (with block and tackle)
* Many other vanished places such as Wentworth Rogers Treadwell Location, Hatch & Cleaves Grant, and Carlisles Purchase
The other map was a George T. Crawford map from 1896, in addition to other vanished places it showed:
* Ossipee Mtn in Moultonboro, maybe about where 2782 is
* Cliffs of Bond with elevation and location of what is now W Bond
* Proposed Moosilauke RR to summit with a lot of curves
* Toad Back 3136 W of Paugus
