Collection of glass-plate negatives found in LCHS vault. Boxes were labeled "Lancaster Camera Club" but negatives are attributed to David Bachman Landis.
Five gentlemen and one woman placing a wreath at James Buchanan's tomb at Woodward Hill Cemetery. Memorial Day, 1928. On back of original photo: "To George Willson, Memorial Day 1928".
Sign at near entrance to Woodward Hill Cemetery erected by Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission for James Buchanan - Lawyer, statesman, diplomat, and fifteenth President of the United States, lies buried in this cemetery, about 350 yards southeast. His home, Wheatland, located on Marietta Avenue is marked with a bronze tablet.
Provenance
Photographs from the James Buchanan Foundation institutional archives.