Photograph- Women's Republican Club Dinner, Oct. 22, 1952. At left, Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, only Republican governor south of Mason and Dixon, nominated D. D. Eisenhower for President at Nation Republican Convention, Chicago. At center, Bertha Cochran Landis, and at right, Mrs. H. C. Kreisle, president of the Women's Republican Club.
Photograph- Women's Republican Club Dinner, Oct. 22, 1952. At left, Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, only Republican governor south of Mason and Dixon, nominated D. D. Eisenhower for President at Nation Republican Convention, Chicago. At center, Bertha Cochran Landis, and at right, Mrs. H. C. Kreisle, president of the Women's Republican Club.
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Women's Republican Club Dinner, Oct. 22, 1952. At left, Governor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin, only Republican governor south of Mason and Dixon, nominated D. D. Eisenhower for President at Nation Republican Convention, Chicago. At center, Bertha Cochran Landis, and at right, Mrs. H. C. Kreisle, president of the Women's Republican Club.
Photograph- Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Photograph- Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
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Pennsylvania Railroad station. President Theodore Roosevelt's special train stop at Lancaster in 1912. Roosevelt is standing on rear platform.
Mayor Thomas J. Monaghan, second from left, accepting a check for $2905.50 on behalf of the Community Chest of Lancaster County from Captain Hamilton Howe, U. S. Navy, Commander of the U. S. Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, MD. Captain Richard B. Derickson, Commanding Officer, Service School Command and Chairman of the Red Feather Drive at Bainbridge, and Mr. John Reardon, U. S. O. Area Director watch the presentation. The check represents part of the money collected in the Combined Charities Drive at the Center. Captain Howe, in presenting the check, said that it was only a small repayment from the Bainbridge men and women for the fine hospitality and friendship of the people of Lancaster.
100th Anniversary celebration at Wheatland. Identified from left to right: R. E. Fellers, Director, Division of Philately; E. George Siedle, Assistant Postmaster General, Bureau of Transportation; Samuel C. Slaymaker, Buchanan Foundation; Albert J. Robertson, Assistant Postmaster General and Controller, Bureau of Finance; John B. Rengier, President, Buchanan Foundation; Frederic S. Klein, Director of Public Relations, Buchanan Foundation. Taken in Mr. Siedle's office, Washington, D. C., at time of decision to issue Wheatland stamp commemorating a Presidential shrine in Pennylvania, in the 100th anniversary year of the election of James Buchanan to the presidency, 1856. Five copies of photograph. Taken for the Post Office Department of the United States of America.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Group of men who were delegates to Washington, D.C., from the New York Shipbuilding company. Martin Horting, marked in the back row with an x, was from Lancaster. He worked as a blacksmith for the company during World War I and helped to build the U. S. S. Idaho, then the Navy's largest battleship. Photo was taken on the White House lawn and shows Horting with other delegates and government officials. A newspaper article about Horting and the event is taped to the back of the photograph.
