Penn Square looking east - huge crowd gathered. Banner over street for Young Men's Republican Club with images of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur. Digital image only.
Photograph- Old newspaper ad: John Eberman informs his friends and the public generally that he has just opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. Kirkpartrick, where he offers for sale a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, saddlery, and glass and delphware, upon moderate terms. He flatters himself that from an endeavor to keep a constant supply of the above articles, and attent to business, to merit a share of the public generous patronage.
Refers to John Eberman, son of the clockmaker John Eberman.
Photograph- Old newspaper ad: John Eberman informs his friends and the public generally that he has just opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. Kirkpartrick, where he offers for sale a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, saddlery, and glass and delphware, upon moderate terms. He flatters himself that from an endeavor to keep a constant supply of the above articles, and attent to business, to merit a share of the public generous patronage.
Refers to John Eberman, son of the clockmaker John Eberman.
Description
Old newspaper ad: John Eberman informs his friends and the public generally that he has just opened a new store in the house lately occupied by Mr. Kirkpartrick, where he offers for sale a general assortment of dry goods, groceries, saddlery, and glass and delphware, upon moderate terms. He flatters himself that from an endeavor to keep a constant supply of the above articles, and attent to business, to merit a share of the public generous patronage.
Refers to John Eberman, son of the clockmaker John Eberman.
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.
James Buchanan's 200th birthday celebration at Wheatland. Men in Civil War military uniforms and Paul Ripple dressed as James Buchanan on the front steps of Wheatland.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Thought to be a portrait of Edward Y. Buchanan, brother of James Buchanan. Stamped on back of photograph: L. P. Millenbach, 27345 Middlebelt Rd., Farmington, Michigan.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
