Thayer family collection 1892-1986

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Thayer family collection 1892-1986

1892-1986

https://findingaids.library.upenn.edu/records/ISM_ISM.1989.033

The Thayers were a prominent Philadelphia-area family at the turn of the 20th century. John Borland Thayer, Jr. was a vice-president of the Pennsylvania Railroad when he died in the sinking of on April 15, 1912. The Thayer family collection consists of more than 700 items of ocean liner ephemera dating from 1892 to 1986, including postcards, abstracts of logs, advertisements, passenger lists, menus, deck plans, photographs, stationery and baggage tags from ships of more than 40 lines. The collection also includes one of the only extant first class passenger lists from . Titanic Titanic

10.0 boxes

eng, Latn

Independence Seaport Museum, J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6328614

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Thayer, John B. (John Borland), 1862-1912

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The Thayers were a prominent Philadelphia-area family at the turn of the 20th century. John Borland Thayer, born April 21, 1862, was the Second Vice-President of the Pennsylvania Railroad. He and his wife, Marian Longstreth Morris Thayer, lived in Haverford, Pennsylvania, and were the parents of Margaret, Pauline, Frederick and John, Jr. The Thayers’ were traveling home to Haverford from Berlin as first class passengers on the Titanic . John Borland Thayer did not seek a...

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Titanic (Steamship)

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The RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. Of the 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of the deadliest commercial peacetime maritime disasters in modern history. It was the largest ship afloat at the time it entered service....

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