Peachy at The New-York Historical Society-The Titanic Exhibit
The New-York Historical Society has a short but sweet tribute to the Titanic that Peachy swung by to see this weekend...here is a piece of it!
The Thayer Family
John and Marian Thayer and their 17-year-old son Jack were returning from Europe aboard the Titanic. Mrs. Thayer, portrayed as a young newlywed in this miniature, was 40 when she said goodbye to her husband and boarded a lifeboat. John Thayer went down with the ship; their son Jack tried his luck jumping clear of the sinking Titanic. He found an overturned lifeboat and survived the freezing temperatures. Later that day, mother and son were reunited aboard the Carpathia. Jack wrote about the experience many years later; his mother never remarried and passed away April 14, 1944.
Carl A. Weidner (1865-1906) and Fredrika Weidner (b. 1865)
Mrs. John Borland Thayer (1872-1944), ca. 1895
Watercolor on ivory
New-York Historical Society, Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié, 1905.247
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