The Norwich Aurora - Extra, Norwich, Connecticut. The issue is dedicated to Buchanan's inauguration. It provides an eighteenth century play-by-play of Buchanan's life beginning with the Presidential election, travel from Wheatland to Washington, and his inaugural address. There are other articles of national importance regarding the Missouri Compromise and the Supreme Court ruling in the Dred Scott case; Kansas; President Pierce; and George Washington. The local news pertains to the upcoming Connecticut state and local elections. Corner of pages 3 and 4 is missing.
James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,
https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm
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James Buchanan Collection (MG0096) https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo3760
James Buchanan Family Papers
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph Collection
Curatorial Collection
Wheatland Collection
Wheatland Mansion
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Page 192 of "Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion" from 1854. Includes an article on James Buchanan with images of him as Minister to England and of Wheatland. Also includes musings on "What is the hardest mode to die?"
Class photograph of Simmonstown School, 1937 - 1938. Bottom Row: Lester Hoover, Junior Raum (McDonald), Lester Swartzentruber, Arthur Kennel, John Mast, Everett Walker, Joseph Davis, Earl Swartzentruber. Second row: Malcolm Davis, Kenneth Hoover, Arthur Riley, John Buchanan, [?] Smoker, Ada Stoltzfus, Salinda Kennel, Leo Swartzentruber, Billy Walker, Henry Ammon, Naomi Kennel. Third Row: Arlene Bewley, Viola London, John London, Sarah Mast, Mary Jane Walker, Sarah Smoker, Mary Baughman, Arlene Walker, [?], Leah Kennel. Fourth Row: Lester Blank, Earl Baughman, Herbert Walker, Calvin Hershey, Haines Walker, Miss Alice E. Brown, Thomas Buchanan, Madeline Hershey, James Buchanan, Arlene Berkey.
