Biographical Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Thayer, Abbott Handerson, 1849-1921
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content: Abbott Handerson Thayer and Thayer Family papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 9 Folders (Box 1)
label: Extent
content: 1 Microfilm reel
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1878-circa 1966
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.thayabbo, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microfilm reels
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Biographical material includes a brief autobiographical statement by Abbott Thayer and a chronology of his artwork and family activities from 1880 to 1921. Also found is the French birth certificate for Thayer's son William Henry Thayer, newspaper obituaries for Emma Beach Thayer, and lists of artworks by Abbott Thayer and Gladys Thayer Reasoner. A biographical sketch written by David Reasoner about the early life of his daughter, Jean Reasoner Plunket, and Jean's genealogy research on the Thayer and Plunket families are filed here. Two volumes of "Family Records" by William Henry Thayer include handwritten family history accounts, correspondence, printed material, photographs, and original artwork by Abbott Handerson Thayer.