Exhibitions

Disasters on the Delaware: Rescues on the River

Exhibition
September 6, 2012
Independence Seaport Museum

Titanic Philadelphians

Exhibition
April 14-December 31, 2012
Independence Seaport Museum

Home of the Brave: The War of 1812 in Art, Story & Song

Exhibition
March 15-December 31, 2012
Independence Seaport Museum

Past to Present -- Tattoo Paintings

Exhibition
February 9-May 20, 2012
Independence Seaport Museum
Seamen's Church Institute's hotel in proximity to the Delaware River in 1925

Records of Philadelphia-based social welfare organization and nautical instrument manufacturer now available

July 1, 2008
Independence Seaport Museum
The archives of the Seamen’s Church Institute of Philadelphia were made publicly available by Independence Seaport Museum’s J. Welles Henderson… view complete listing>>

Independence Seaport Museum
J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library
211 South Columbus Blvd. and Walnut Street
Penn's Landing
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone: 215-413-8640

Library, Archives and Museum. The J. Welles Henderson Archives and Library at Independence Seaport Museum is a regional maritime research center, offering resources that document Philadelphia's relationship with its rivers and the greater Delaware River Valley.  

Independence Seaport Museum’s Archives and Library is one of the nation’s finest regional maritime research facilities, offering an impressive range of materials widely used by historians, authors, genealogists, teachers, students, sailors, filmmakers, boat and model builders, and the merely curious from all over the world.

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