Crowd gathered on rear lawn of Wheatland for a garden party on Wheatland Day. Two copies of photograph. Photograph taken for the Pennsylvania State Department of Commerce.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
Color print of Wheatland farm showing house surrounded by trees, fronted by two circular driveways, white fence, small spring at lower right corner. At back line of trees is a fence; back right is a white stable, two horses, and cow. To left, orchard. Black and white medallion of James Buchanan at top of print, taken from William McMaster's portrait of James Buchanan.
Color lithograph of Wheatland and grounds with seated Buchanan. Below: "Wheatland/the Country Residence of the Hon. James Buchanan, situated neat the City of Lancaster, Penn." "Drawn by J. F. Reigart...entered recording to Act of Congress in the year 1856 by J. F. Reigart, in the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania." Lith. L.N. Rosenthal cor. 5th & Chestnut, Phila.
J. F. Reigart, lithographer. Published by Edwin Clark.
Provenance
Information in object file states that the conservation and reframing of the piece was done by Lancaster Galleries in 2005. The cost was underwritten by Mrs. Dorothy B. Reynolds in memory of George K. Reynolds, Jr.
Front facade of Wheatland. Reprint of image. Written on back: "Reproduced from cut of Wheatland in History of Frarmer's Bank and Trust Co., 1912, F. R. Diffenderfer." And "By Dr. Nelson Francis and given to Mrs. Lampe in June 1960."
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.
