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.
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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.
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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.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Portrait of Elizabeth Browning Buchanan, descendant of Sir Thomas Buchanan, 13th Laird of Scotland and cousin to James Buchanan President of the United States, by Samuel Moore.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives. From Mrs. Harry Newton Blue, Washington, DC.
Polaroid of a portrait of Harriet Buchanan (born 1802, died 1840), sister of James Buchanan. She was married to Rev. Robert Henry and mother of James Buchanan Henry.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Portrait of James Buchanan. Watercolor done by Susan Musser Gibson of Lancaster, 1838, based on the portrait done by Jacob Eichholtz in 1834. From the collection of John and Ann Sanders, 1982. Letter from John Sanders accompanies the photograph.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Reverse of the portrait of James Buchanan. Watercolor done by Susan Musser Gibson of Lancaster, 1838, based on the portrait done by Jacob Eichholtz in 1834. From the collection of John and Ann Sanders, 1982. Letter from John Sanders accompanies the photograph.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Portrait of James Buchanan. Watercolor done Jacob Eichholtz in 1834. Written on back: painted at the age of about 40 years and before his departure as Minister to St. Petersburg, Harriet Lane Johnston Bequest. Stamped on back: National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
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Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
