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Broadside

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 2 Harriet Lane Johnston

Title: Broadside advertising 340 items from Wheatland to be auctioned by Davis & Harvey, Auctioneers

Object ID: JBFP 2.2.3.002

Date Range: 1884/09/17

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 2 Harriet Lane Johnston

Title: Broadside advertising 340 items from Wheatland to be auctioned by Davis & Harvey, Auctioneers

Description: Broadside advertising 340 items from Wheatland to be auctioned by Davis & Harvey, Auctioneers, at their Art Gallery, No. 1212 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, on 17 September, 1884. Note at top of sheet: Compare this bill with statement in Klein’s Story of Wheatland, p.61.

Date Range: 1884/09/17

Creator: Davis & Harvey

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives North

Storage Container: JBFP Oversized Box 3

Subjects: Davis & Harvey; Broadsides

Search Terms: Davis & Harvey; Auctions; Broadsides; Harriet Lane Johnston; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 12.75 x 14.25 cm., 7.5.25 x 7.5 in. and 18.5 x 12 cm.

Object Name: Broadside

Language: English

Condition Notes: In three pieces.

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 2 Series 2

Object ID: JBFP 2.2.3.002

Location of Originals: Housed in JBFP Oversized Box 3.

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS1995.263

Other Number: JBFP Part 2, Series 2, Subseries 3, Folder 2

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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Deed

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: Photocopy of the Woodward Hill Cemetery deed

Object ID: MG0096 F054

Date Range: 1883/06/02, 1913/05/08

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: Photocopy of the Woodward Hill Cemetery deed

Description: Photocopy of the Woodward Hill Cemetery deed and a receipt from the Woodward Hill Cemetery Association for the $100 bequest from Charles Schmitt to care for the graves of himself and his wife. Lancaster. Charles Schmitt was the coachman for James Buchanan.

Date Range: 1883/06/02, 1913/05/08

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

Storage Container: Box 0002

People: Buchanan, James; Schmitt, Charles

Subjects: Deeds; Coach drivers

Search Terms: Deeds; Woodward Hill Cemetery; Woodward Hill Cemetery Association; Coach drivers; James Buchanan; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 2 items, 2 pages to scan, 18.5 x 44 cm, 28 x 21.5 cm

Object Name: Deed

Language: English

Parent Object ID: MG0096

Object ID: MG0096 F054

Location of Originals: Photocopy

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: 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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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pa.

Other Number: MG-0096, Folder 054

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: Digitization of the James Buchanan Collection was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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Deed

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 3 James Buchanan Henry

Title: Indenture transferring property in Brooklyn, NY from John and Mary Magilligan to James Buchanan Henry

Object ID: JBFP 3.2.2.003

Date Range: 1889/05/16

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 3 James Buchanan Henry

Title: Indenture transferring property in Brooklyn, NY from John and Mary Magilligan to James Buchanan Henry

Description: Indenture transferring property along Carroll Street from John and Mary Magilligan to James Buchanan Henry for the sum of $25,500; recorded on 21 May 1889. Brooklyn, King’s County, NY.

Date Range: 1889/05/16

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 3, Box 4

People: Henry, James Buchanan; Magilligan, John; Magilligan, Mary

Subjects: Deeds

Search Terms: Deeds; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 4 pages to scan, 43 x 28 cm.

Object Name: Deed

Language: English

Condition Notes: Water damaged.

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 3 Series 2

Object ID: JBFP 3.2.2.003

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

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Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS1998.012

Other Number: JBFP Part 3, Series 2, Subseries 2, Folder 3

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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Fraktur

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Object ID: G.77.50.1

Date Range: c. 1789

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Collection: Heritage Center Collection

Description: Birth & baptismal certificate on laid paper. Printed form with central textblock in German within a multiple line border. Infilled and decorated around textblock by Speyer; cross-legged angel at top, pelicans feeding young at sides and flowers at sides and bottom. Watercolors are red, blue, yellow, green and brown.; Infilled for Johannes, son of Valiendein (Valentine) and Eliesabetha (Elisabetha) Bohmer of Brecknock Township in Lancaster Co., born Dec. 13, 1788.; Georg Friederich Speyer (active 1774-1801) used this printed form produced c. 1789 by Barton & Johnson of Reading. See Notes.

Date Range: c. 1789

Year Range From: 1789

Year Range To: 1895

Creator: Speyer, Georg Friederich

Made By: Barton & Johnson

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: DAC

Storage Wall: Island 5

Storage Cabinet: Unit 43

Storage Shelf: Bin 2-F

Subcategory: Need to Classify

Subject: Fraktur art; Frakturs (Documents); Baptismal records

Search Terms: Fraktur; Baptismal records

Object Name: Fraktur

Oither Names: Taufschein

Material: Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Height (in): 16.5

Width (in): 13

Dimension Details: Frame is 19.75 x 16'.

Condition: Good

Condition Date: 2015-07-27

Condition Notes: General wear with numerous creases and wrinkles; one pronounced vertical centerline crease. Repaired tears, esp at left edge. All edges are ragged and uneven, esp. at right.; Conserved by CCAHA in 1989 (see report in file). Hinged into window mat & back mat. Relaced in its original frame using UF-3 Plexiglas and acid-free cardboard on reverse with a taped mylar dust shield.

Object ID: G.77.50.1

Notes: Printed form by Reading printers Thomas Barton and Benjamin Johnson, circa 1789 (see Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth & Baptismal Certificates of the Pa. Germans, v. 4, p. 84). Speyer used this printed form for Johannes Bohmer who was born the previous year in1788.

Place of Origin: Lancaster County

Role: Artist

Credit: Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Richard Flanders Smith, Heritage Center Collection

Accession Number: G.77.50

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Letter

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Others (Not Part of the Family)

Title: Letter from the Leader Publishing Company to J. M. Cooper

Object ID: JBFP 8.1.1.022

Date Range: 1888/12/18

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Collection: James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 8 Others (Not Part of the Family)

Title: Letter from the Leader Publishing Company to J. M. Cooper

Description: Letter from the Leader Publishing Company to J. M. Cooper acknowledging his acceptance to attend their annual dinner for the newsboys and bootblacks. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Date Range: 1888/12/18

Creator: Leader Publishing Company

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Container: JBFP Part 8, Box 1

People: Cooper, John M.

Subjects: Dinners and dining; Paperboys; Shoe shiners; Letters

Search Terms: Correspondence; Letters; Leader Publishing Company; Annual dinner; Newsboys; Shoe shiners; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 14 x 22 cm.

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Parent Object ID: JBFP Part 8 Series 1

Object ID: JBFP 8.1.1.022

Associated Material: James Buchanan Papers, Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections,; http://archives.dickinson.edu/collection-descriptions/james-buchanan-papers; James Buchanan and Harriet Lane Johnston Papers, Library of Congress,; https://www.loc.gov/collections/james-buchanan-and-harriet-lane-johnston-papers/; James Buchanan Papers, Historical Society of Pennsylvania,; http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/b/Buchanan0091.html; James Buchanan Papers, Penn State University Libraries,; https://libraries.psu.edu/findingaids/1458.htm

Related Item Notes: James Buchanan Family Papers; MG-96 James Buchanan Collection; Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm; Photograph collections; Curatorial collections; Wheatland Mansion

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Access Conditions / Restrictions: Please use digital images and transcriptions when available. Original documents may be used by appointment. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org at least two weeks prior to visit.

Copyright: Images have been provided for research purposes only. Please contact archives@lancasterhistory.org for a high-resolution image and permission to publish.; LancasterHistory retains the rights to the digital images and content presented. The doctrine of fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder. Fair use includes comment, criticism, teaching, and private scholarship. Any images and data downloaded, printed or photocopied for these purposes should provide a citation. All other uses beyond those allowed by fair use require written permission.; Permission for reproduction and/or publication must be obtained in writing from LancasterHistory. Some items are photocopies from other collections--researchers must obtain permission for reproduction and publication from the owner of the original material.; Persons wishing to publish any material from this site must assume all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright or other use restrictions. Publication fees may apply.

Credit: Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Accession Number: JBMS1995.427

Other Number: JBFP Part 8, Series 1, Subseries 1, Folder 22

Description Level: Item

Custodial History: The James Buchanan Family Papers were collected by the James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland. This collection was relocated from the Wheatland mansion to the LancasterHistory archives in the Spring of 2009. Digitization of the James Buchanan Family Papers was funded by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, PHMC Appl ID # 201808013051, 2019-2020.

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Letter

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Collection: Philip Schum, Son & Co. Papers

Title: Philip Schum, Son & Co. Papers

Object ID: MG0837_F001_In04

Date Range: 1883/08/27

• www.LancasterHistory.org Preferred Citation: Philip Schum, Son & Co. Papers (MG0837), Folder #, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. People: McLean, William Schum, John Schum, Philip Subject Headings: Advertising Advertising cards Business records Ephemera Weavers Search Terms: Advertising Advertising cards Business

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Collection: Philip Schum, Son & Co. Papers

Title: Philip Schum, Son & Co. Papers

Description: Note from John Schum to William McLean, Esq. Schum is requesting amount due for birds.

Admin/Biographical History: For information about Philip Schum, John Schum, and Philip Schum, Son & Co., see Portrait and Biographical Record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. https://books.google.com/books?id=HuxHAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350&dq=philip+schum+son+%26+co&source=bl&ots=kNLKl4SUmM&sig=ACfU3U3APEU8LXaqzX4bKc5unU9gW4wu3w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwih95i8g-n0AhUul3IEHU2iABoQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=philip%20schum%20son%20%26%20co&f=false

Date Range: 1883/08/27

Creation Date: 27 August 1883

Creator: Philip Schum, Son & Co.

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 19

People: McLean, William; Schum, John; Schum, Philip

Subjects: Advertising; Advertising cards; Business records; Ephemera; Weavers

Search Terms: Advertising; Advertising cards; Business records; Ephemera; Finding aids; Manuscript groups; Philip Schum, Son & Co.; Trade cards; Weavers

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan

Object Name: Letter

Language: English

Object ID: MG0837_F001_In04

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Related Item Notes: See the Curatorial Collection; See the Photograph Collection

Notes: Preferred Citation: Title or description of item, date (day, month, year), Philip Schum, Son & Co. Papers, MG0837_F001_In04, LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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