Porcelain tea service set. White background with gold paint design. Design in on the inside of plates and saucers and on outside of cups and bowls. Band with gold line top and bottom. Between these lines, repeated four times each: laurel wreath with flow
Daguerreotype of Harriet Lane. Full bust length view, facing right. Her hair is coiled and pinned back. She is wearing a dark jacket over a white blouse, with a white lace collar. Broach at her neck and long earrings are prominent. Gold matting around image. Image mounted inside of book-type case of black leather and red velvet inner lining. Two hook clasps.
This daguerreotype represents the earliest known image of Harriet Lane, niece of President James Buchanan. This likeness might have been photographed ca. 1845, Harriet Lane would have been about fifteen years old.
Remains of green silk at both ends over linen. Backing appears to be natural color linen with an open weave wool decorated with needlepoint floral-design repeated about ten times down length. Red rose/lavender rose/blue violets, with green leaves also shadings of brown.
Sepia-tinted photo of Harriet Lane. Oval. Harriet facing 3/4 front, to her right. Hair rolled under with flowers. Decolletage dress with flowers at center and at shoulders. Light-colored dress, no jewelry. Shown from hips up. Frame: rounded front, plain,
One of 44 Parisian Pink dinner plates. White with gold laurel leaf border; inside wider band of pink bordered with gold; monogram 'HEJ' and coat of arms (armored upraised arm with dagger) in gold; scalloped edge.
8 linen hand towels. White damask with geometric square design panel along both ends, vine and leaf design. Crocheted edges with 'HLJ' elaborately embroidered with grey thread with floral motifs.
Were Harriet Lane Johnston's. Inherited by _____________ who was Harriet's cousin, then to _______________ sister Mrs. E.R. Taylor. Then they went to her son, Edmund R. Taylor Jr., who with his wife was the donor to Wheatland.
Three-mold colorless glass pint decanter etched on one side with initials 'JB' and the other with a sheaf of wheat above the word 'Wheatland'. Elongated chamfered neck with applied handle and bullseye stopper. Teardrop-shaped body with flat front and back.
Gold locket. Oval, two-sided, covers hinged on opposite sides. Covers have center oval surrounded by criss-crossed curved lines etched to form swirling design. Locket contains two daguerreotypes. One is a woman who looks very much like Harriet Lane (Poss
Depth given is actually the thickness of the locket.
Object ID
W.89.56
Notes
There is some speculation that the daguerreotype of the man was taken post mortem, although this claim in not neccesarily true. The man could be Harriet Lane's brother Elliott Eskridge Lane (1823-1857). The woman could be Harriet Lane's sister, Mary Eliz