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.
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.
Boulder and bronze tablet on the site of Postlethwaite's Tavern on Long Lane near Rock Hill in Conestoga Township. This was the location where, in 1729, the first courts of justice in Lancaster County were held. Erected in 1915.
Provenance
Album of historical markers erected by the Lancaster County Historical Society, compiled by George L. Heiges in 1986.
