The White Mountains vacation photograph album contains 26 photographs taken by amateur photographer brothers Thomas Avery Hine and Charles Gilbert Hine related to a twelve-day carriage tour of the White Mountains by a party of eight travelers in July of 1883. The album (18 x 27 cm) is half bound with black leather and brown boards and gilt title reading "Chronicles of our White Mountain trip, July, 1883." An inscription inside the front cover reads "Miss Mary A. Barnard, compliments of T. A. & C. G. Hine." The album consists of albumen prints glued to thick cardstock (opposite printed text) and glued onto the facing page.
Scenic images include views of Tuckerman's Ravine, Pemigewasset River, Franconia Notch, Lake Chocorua, Lake Winnepesaukee, Profile Mountain, and Mt. Lafayette. Other images of interest include views of two horse-drawn carriages on the road, the traveling party relaxing on a dock and posed atop a boulder, and the Crawford House and Thorn Mountain House hotels. Photographs are accompanied by a printed narrative of the journey written by Ellen T. Cheever Rockwood.
Thomas A. (1855-1933) and Charles G. Hine (1859-1931) were sons of Mary Hazard Avery Hine (1822-1907) and Charles Cole Hine (1825-1897), a publisher and editor of insurance periodicals. All three were founding members of the Newark Camera Club. After the death of Charles C. Hine, the brothers took over the publishing company, which became C. C. Hine's Sons Company in New York City.
Members of the traveling party depicted in this album include Thomas A. Hine's wife, Anna Hine (1858-1905); William Barnard (1856-1886) of Franklin, New Hampshire, and his sisters Mary Barnard (b. 1860) also of Franklin, and Emma Barnard Pray (b. 1857) of Newtonville, Massachusetts; and sisters Ellen T. Cheever Rockwood (1860-1933) and Charlotte Cheever (1858-1944) of Worcester, Masschusetts. Mary Barnard and Charlotte Cheever both graduated from Smith College in 1881.
