Among the Clouds (Mount Washington, N.H.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,730 issues from 1885 to 1917, published in Mount Washington, New Hampshire, digitised for Chronicling America.
Among the Clouds was the first summer-resort newspaper in America, published daily on the summit of Mount Washington during the golden age of hotel tourism in New Hampshire’s rugged White Mountains region. The paper was the brainchild of Henry Martyn Burt (1831-1899), a career publisher based in Springfield, MA. Burt was drawn north in his thirties after reading the influential traveler’s guide The White Hills by Unitarian minister Thomas Starr King. Inspired, Burt endeavored to publish his own guide to the White Mountains and greater Connecticut River valley, and he began taking frequent summer trips north to research. While preparing the second edition in 1874, Burt became storm-bound at the summit of Mt. Washington, and quickly grew bored. According to his eulogy in the July 14, 1899, issue of Among the Clouds, “the absence of reading material suggested to his keen journalistic intellect the publication of a paper on the mountain.” Three years later, having arranged for a Campbell cylinder press to be hauled up Mt. Washington by rail and stowed in the stone Tip Top House, the paper, initially titled Burt’s Among the Clouds, was born.
In his first editorial, issued July 20, 1877, Burt described the paper’s mountain home in transcendent terms: “We never feel so infinite as when we are looking upon these lofty mountains and the thousand beauties that are limited only by human vision.” His prose belies the difficulty of publishing a newspaper at 6,288 feet above sea level.…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Mount Washington, New Hampshire, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress