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.
Norris D. Alexander's Water Wagons with driver and horses on West James Street with Theological Seminary in rear. Mr. Alexander had a city contract for sprinkling dusty streets.
Evangelical and Reformed Seminary on West James Street, Lancaster.
Provenance
Small black album of photographys and cyanotypes of people and scenes around Lancaster County taken between 1900 and 1906. Many of the places are identifiable, but names of people not always included. Several pages at the front of the album are loose. Album belonged to Blanche Hartman.
Dillman R. Bomberger (December 15, 1879 - 1944) was a schoolteacher and photographer who was born near Lexington, Elizabeth Township. He worked as a schoolteacher in Elizabeth Township and by 1910 was working as a bookkeeper for Bayonne Steel Casting Company in Reading, PA. He married Aimee Brubaker in 1910 and had two children: Verna and David.
The photographs in this collection are mostly of family or friends and locations in the Elizabeth Township, Warwick Township and Lititz area.
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.
