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Alta California : embracing notices of the climate, soil, and agricultural products of northern Mexico and the Pacific seaboard : also, a history of the military and naval operations of the United States directed against the territories of northern Mexico, in the year 1846-'47 : with documents declaratory of the policy of the present administration of the national government in regard to the annexation of conquered territory to this union, and the opinion of the Hon. James Buchanan on the Wilmot Proviso, &c

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Author
Captain of volunteers.
Date of Publication
1847.
Call Number
979.4403 C254
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by a Captain of volunteers.
Author
Captain of volunteers.
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
H. Packer & Co. ...,
Date of Publication
1847.
Physical Description
[2], 5-64 p. (first leaf blank) ; 25 cm.
Notes
This copy is a reproduction ISBN 0548410593.
Description of area: p. 9-12; history and documentation: p. 13-64.
Anti-annexation tract.
Summary
The 1847 publication briefly address climate soil and agriculture in Alta and Baja California in chapter I. The following eight chapters consist of communications from the U.S. Government consisting of instructions in the event Mexico declared war, justification of and motives for war, various reports to Washington, communications with Mexican officials in Alta California, accounts of the military operations in California, the articles of capitulation entered into at Rancho of Cowanga on January 13, 1847, all of which are interspersed with personal observations and comments by the author. The final chapter deals with the question of whether slavery would be allowed in California, the policy of the South and its motive for a slave market and emigrants to California and Northern Mexico [from California State University's Digital Commons]
Subjects
Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
California - Description and travel.
California - History - 1846-1850.
Mexico, North - Description and travel.
California - Annexation to the United States.
Place
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
979.4403 C254
Websites
https://archive.org/details/altcaliforniembr00strerich/page/n7/mode/2up
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An open letter to the church members at Longenecker's Meeting House, West Lampeter Township, Lancaster Co., Pa

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Author
Kachel, Solomon.
Date of Publication
1891.
Call Number
289.7 K11
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Continued by Solomon Kachel and wife Catharine.
Author
Kachel, Solomon.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Commercial Print. House,
Date of Publication
1891.
Physical Description
44 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
LCHS does not have first part.
Subjects
Longenecker's Reformed Mennonite Church (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Church discipline.
Additional Author
Kachel, Katharine.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
289.7 K11
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Biography of James G. Blaine

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Author
Hamilton, Gail,
Date of Publication
1895.
Call Number
923.273 B634d
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by Gail Hamilton.
Author
Hamilton, Gail,
Place of Publication
Norwich, Conn
Publisher
H. Bill Pub. Co., ;
Date of Publication
1895.
Physical Description
iv, 722 p., [20] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Summary
The author is the cousin of Mr Blaine's wife.James Blaine was born in West Brownsville,Pa in 1830 . He moved to Maine after college. He died in 1893.Chapters discuss his service in the U.S. House of Representatives where he was Speaker of the House for 6 years ; also his service in the U.S. Senate and his time as U.S. Secretary of State.No bibliography or footnotes
Subjects
Blaine, James Gillespie, - 1830-1893.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
923.273 B634d
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Card, Calling

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Collection
James Buchanan Family Papers
Title
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 Papers of James Buchanan, Series 5 Ephemera
Object ID
JBFP Part 1 Series 5
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James Buchanan Family Papers
Title
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 Papers of James Buchanan, Series 5 Ephemera
Description
James Buchanan Family Papers, Part 1 Papers of James Buchanan, Series 5 contains ephemera from his personal life and political career. The materials in this collection range from 1833 to 1860.
The materials include invitations to different events and dinners, a facsimile of his petition for membership in Lodge No. 43, Free and Accepted Masons in Lancaster, a list of guests invited to a dinner in St. Petersburg in Russia during Buchanan's time as the ambassador, admission tickets, menus for dinners, bills of fare, and embossed valentines. Some of the organizations mentioned were the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art, Seamen's Hospital Society, the Royal Astronomical Society Club, the Democratic Citizens of the City of Philadelphia, and the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce.
Admin/Biographical History
James Buchanan was born on April 23, 1791 to James Buchanan and Elizabeth Speer. He was the second child born out of ten children, and he would go on to outlive all but one of his siblings. Most popularly remembered as Pennsylvania's only President and as a lifelong bachelor, Buchanan committed a lifetime to politics. In 1821, he left his law practice and embarked on his political career after having been voted into the U.S. House of Representatives. He would remain in the House for five consecutive terms before serving as the U.S. Minister to Russia, a Senator in the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Secretary of State, the U.S. Minister to Great Britain, and finally, the 15th President of the United States. He died in his bedchamber at Wheatland at 8:30 AM on June 1, 1868. He was 77 years old. [https://www.lancasterhistory.org/about-wheatland, accessed 10/24/2019]
System of Arrangement
JBFP Part 1 Series 5 Ephemera
Subseries 1 Invitations, Valentines, Broadsides, Visiting Cards
Year Range From
1833
Year Range To
1860
Creator
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Archives South
People
Buchanan, James
Johnston, Harriet Lane
Other Creators
James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.)
Subjects
Broadsides
Invitation cards
Menus
Petitions
Tickets
Valentines
Visiting cards
Ephemera
Search Terms
Broadsides
Buchanan Collections
Calling cards
Finding aids
Harriet Lane Johnston
Invitations
James Buchanan
Manuscript groups
Menus
Petitions
Tickets
Valentines
Visiting cards
Ephemera
James Buchanan Presidential Library
Extent
1 box, 66 folders, .25 cubic ft.
Object Name
Archive
Invitation
Card, Calling
Language
English
Object ID
JBFP Part 1 Series 5
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
James Buchanan Collection, MG0096
Historical Society of Pennsylvania microfilm
Photograph collections
Curatorial collections
Wheatland Mansion
Access Conditions / Restrictions
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Credit
Courtesy of LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Description Level
Series
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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Colonel James Crawford

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Author
Evans, Samuel,
Date of Publication
1899
COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD, The paper read at the meeting of the Historical Society of Lancaster County on September 2, 1898, prepared by J. W. Sheaffer, of Illinois, contains some statements not borne out by historical data. General Anthony Wayne's troops never encamped in Mount Joy, in Lan- caster
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Responsibility
by Samuel Evans, Esq.
Author
Evans, Samuel,
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1899
Physical Description
[40]-44 p. ; ,e 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 2/3
Subjects
Crawford, James.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 3, number 2/3 (1899), p. 40-44Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.3
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Colonel James Crawford, a Revolutionary soldier

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Author
Shaeffer, J. W.
Date of Publication
1899
COLONEL JAMES CRAWFORD. On the 15th day of December, 1774, James Crawford was elected from Han- over, Pa., as one of the sixty freehold- ers' committee to "observe the conduct of all persons touching the general as- sociation of the General Congress" .... .."which committee shall divide into
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Responsibility
by J. W. Shaeffer.
Author
Shaeffer, J. W.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1899
Physical Description
[17]-19 p. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 3, no. 1
Subjects
Crawford, James, - 1724-1804.
Lancaster County (Pa.) - History - 17th century.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 3, number 1 (1899), p. 17-19Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.3
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Early history of Schaefferstown, Pa. / by Abram S. Brendle

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Author
Brendle, Abram S.
Date of Publication
1898.
Call Number
974.819 L441 v.1, p. 9-16
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Alternate Title
Addresses delivered at the second stated meeting of the Lebanon County Historical Society, held in the court house, Lebanon, Pa., Friday, April 15, 1898.
Author
Brendle, Abram S.
Place of Publication
[s.l
Publisher
s.n.],
Date of Publication
1898.
Physical Description
p. [2]-16 ; 28 cm.
Series
Lebanon County Historical Society publications ; v. 1, no. 3
Notes
Photocopy.
Contents
Chapters: Great influx of Germans and Swiss -- Early residents -- The plan of the town -- The name of the town -- The old market house -- The Franklin House -- The water works -- Stiegle's Castle or Tower -- The Reformed church -- Early members of the Reformed church -- The Lutheran Church -- The Lutheran School House -- The founder of the town -- The old cemetery -- Copy of a paper found in the Reformed Church records ( in German ).
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives.
Lebanon County (Pa.) - History.
Schaefferstown (Pa.) - History.
Additional Author
Egle, William Henry,
Brendle, A. S.
Additional Corporate Author
Lebanon County Historical Society (Lebanon County, Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
974.819 L441 v.1, p. 9-16
Websites
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89062015805;view=1up;seq=51
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Extracts from Chief Justice William Allen's letter book

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Author
Allen, William,
Date of Publication
1897.
Call Number
974.802 W181
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Selected and arranged by Lewis Burd Walker. Together with an appendix containing pamphlets in the controversy with Franklin.
Author
Allen, William,
Place of Publication
[Pottsville, Pa
Publisher
Standard Pub. Co.]
Date of Publication
1897.
Physical Description
136 p. port. 24 cm.
Series
The Burd papers
Subjects
Franklin, Benjamin, - 1706-1790.
Additional Author
Walker, Lewis Burd,
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
974.802 W181
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Fraud and falsehood exposed : General Taylor's Southern face

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Corporate Author
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Date of Publication
[1848?]
Call Number
815 P769 # 15
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published by a Committee of Democrats.
Corporate Author
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Place of Publication
Washington, D.C
Publisher
Greer's Printing Office,
Date of Publication
[1848?]
Physical Description
8 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Cover title.
The issue dwarfing all others in the 1848 national elections was the disposition of territory acquired as the result of the Mexican War. Slave and Free states battled to add them to their ranks. Whig campaign pamphlets portrayed their candidate Taylor as anti-slavery in the North and as pro-slavery in the South. His opponent, Democrat Lewis Cass, was portrayed as pro-slavery in the North and anti-slavery in the South. The Democrats proceeded in a like manner. Here, for Northern consumption, Democrats demonstrate Taylor's "Southern face," i.e., his expressed comfort with Southern institutions and opposition to the Wilmot Proviso, barring slavery from the conquered territories.
In: Political Speeches.
Subjects
Cass, Lewis, - 1782-1866.
Taylor, Zachary, - 1784-1850.
Campaign literature - United States.
Presidential candidates - United States.
Presidents - United States
Slavery - United States
United States - Politics and government - 1845-1849.
Washington (D.C.) - Imprints - 19th century.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Rare Books
Call Number
815 P769 # 15
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Genealogy of the Claypoole family of Philadelphia. 1588-1893

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Author
Graff, Rebecca Irwin Vanuxen Trimble,
Date of Publication
1893.
Call Number
929 C619g
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by Rebecca Irwin Graff.
Author
Graff, Rebecca Irwin Vanuxen Trimble,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
[J.B. Lippincott company]
Date of Publication
1893.
Physical Description
4 p., 1 β., 5-197 p. front., plates, ports. 26 cm.
Subjects
Claypoole family.
Claypoole family (James Claypoole, - 1634-1687)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
929 C619g
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