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.
Photograph- Three images: 1.) placing wreath at statue of James Buchanan during unveiling ceremony on June 1, 1928. 2.) Justice John Hay Brown. 3.) Unite of 28th Division, PA National Guard.
Photograph- Three images: 1.) placing wreath at statue of James Buchanan during unveiling ceremony on June 1, 1928. 2.) Justice John Hay Brown. 3.) Unite of 28th Division, PA National Guard.
Description
Three images: 1.) placing wreath at statue of James Buchanan during unveiling ceremony on June 1, 1928. 2.) Justice John Hay Brown. 3.) Unit of 28th Division, PA National Guard.
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.
Newspaper article and photograph about the last trip of the Maytown transfer, the last trip of the stage in Lancaster county to carry mails. PIctured are Jacob K. Miller, John Orth, David E. Brandt and Charles Resch.
Letter carriers, Lancaster Post Office. Identified are, first row, left to right: Benjamin F. Zook, Benjamin Eichholtz, Ed R. Troyer, William Brenneman, John Tomilson, Leister Long. Second row, left to right: Frank Hoffman, Abram Erisman, Casper Kirchner, Jacob C. Hess, George Kuntz, Henry Hardy. Back row: George W. Pinkerton and Harry H. Marshall.
