Thayer Family Photos (Numbers 71,76,80,81)

Indexed Thayer Family

Feb 01, 2025

Thayer Family Photos

These photos are indexed with descriptions. This is not usually the case for the majority of pictures in our collection. Meet the Thayer family.

Group photo at Bank Village Camp — Photo 71. Group photo (left to right): Ned Brown, Helen Caldwell Thayer, Frances Preston, Frank Preston, Anne Chandler Thayer, Mabel Thayer Preston, Grace Thayer Brown, Frank Preston, Jr., Walter Thayer and Philip Thayer. Seated is Patty Berkeley with William Thayer in the front. Taken at Bank Village Camp unknown date.

Photo 76. Phil Thayer at Walter Thayer's home unknown date.

Grace, Walter and Anne Thayer — Photo 80. Grace Thayer Brown, Walter Thayer and Anne Thayer - unknown date.

Photo 81. Phil Thayer with horse at the Farm unknown date.

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James Roger diary entry

February 1, 1909 (Sunday)

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Snow 9 degrees frost snow fell all day till 2 pm then rain.  David went to Greenville took Mrs. Amee piano case and brought grain for Wilbur and ourselves also box for Mrs. Amee.  I picked one chicken and took charge of library in afternoon as Mrs. Preston was in Boston. Hamish came up with Hollis at night.

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Patricia Kangas Ktistes

17h

Nice old photos.

I’m wondering what a piano case was in those days. A huge shipping crate? Nowadays if you google “piano case” you find a variety of bag in which to haul around electronic instruments, which aren’t really pianos. You will never get the same resonance as with a nice acoustic instrument.

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Bill Niemi

12h

I have to give the Thayers credit for their achievements. They hard working and not afraid to get their hands dirty. They were more like the average family than I thought when I worked for them. Phil and his wife are shown cultivating (with a horse no less) and planting what I think are blueberry bushes. The family photo was taken at the Preston camp (the site is now owned by Ollie Niemi). If that is Billy Thayer in the photo, then I say the photo was taken in 1935.

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