Featured issue
June 1936
Vol. 6, No. 3
A full-page photograph of the Daniel Webster Highway (U.S. 3) at Whitefield, near the entrance to the Mt. View House. The caption notes the delight of motoring over shaded roads with mountain vistas.Browse this issue
About the collection
The New Hampshire Troubadour was a monthly magazine published by the New Hampshire State Development Commission from the 1930s through the 1950s. Equal parts travel journal, cultural chronicle, and promotional periodical, it celebrated the people, landscapes, industries, and traditions that defined the Granite State during a transformative era in American life.
Each issue blends photographs, essays, poems, and short features — documenting covered bridges and mill towns, foliage seasons and ski slopes, local craftspeople and celebrated authors. Taken together, the run of the Troubadour offers an unusually detailed portrait of mid-twentieth-century New Hampshire, narrated by those who lived it.
This archive makes approximately 240 issues freely available online. Every issue has been scanned at high resolution, and a growing number have been enriched with searchable full-text transcriptions, article-level metadata, and subject tags — work made possible through a combination of careful cataloguing and machine-assisted extraction. We invite you to browse by issue, explore by subject, or search the text to discover what the Troubadour has to say.
