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Message from the President of the United States to the two Houses of Congress, at the commencement of the first session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington, [D.C.]

Publisher: George W. Bowman, printer,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: v. ; 23 cm.

Series: 36th Congress. 1st session. Senate Ex. Doc ; no. 2

Notes: Library has Vol. 1 only.

Contents: v. 1. Annual message of the President ; Report of the Secretary of the Interior ; Report of the Secretary of War ; Report of the Secretary of the Navy ; Report of the Postmaster-General -- v. 2. Report of the Secretary of War --

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Presidents - United States - Messages.; Political science.; Presidents.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861 - Sources.; United States - History - 1849-1877 - Sources.; United States.; History.; Sources.

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Department of the Interior.; United States. War Department.; United States. Navy Department.; United States. Postmaster General.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th, 1st

Wheatland centennial celebration : commemorating the 100th anniversary of the election of James Buchanan 15th president of the United States 1856-1956

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Date of Publication: 1956?]

Call Number: 728.37 W557c

Place of Publication: [S.l

Publisher: S.n.,

Date of Publication: 1956?]

Physical Description: [10] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm. + reprint ([8] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.)

Notes: Cover title.; Includes the Wheatland commemorative stamp.; "Reprint from American Heritage, Volume 5, number 3, published by the American Association for State and Local History"--P. [8] of reprint.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.; Postage stamps - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.

Additional Corporate Author: James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 W557c

Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860

Alternate Title: Message of the President of the United States, December 3, 1860; Annual message of the President

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: George W. Bowman,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 28 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Slavery - United States; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860

Message from the President of the United States to the two houses of Congress : at the commencement of the second session of the thirty-sixth Congress

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Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd

Corporate Author: United States. President (1857-1861 : Buchanan)

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: G.W. Bowman, printer,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: v. ; 23 cm.

Series: 36th Cong., 2d Sess. House of Representatives. Ex. doc.

Notes: Includes reports of heads of departments.; On spine: Message and documents, 1860-1861 part 1.; Library has: v. 1.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - Politics and government - 1857-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918 1860 36th 2nd

James Buchanan and public office : an appraisal

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Author: Carlson, Robert Eugene

Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.81

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Responsibility: by Robert E. Carlson.

Author: Carlson, Robert Eugene

Place of Publication: Philadelphia, Pa

Publisher: Historical Society of Pennsylvania,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: pp. 255-279 ; 23 cm.

Notes: In: Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, v.81 (1957); Discusses Buchanan's public service, and particularly his position on being nominated for the presidency over several years.; This record provides a link to this resuorce on the publisher's official online repository.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - Politics and government - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article

Call Number: 905.748 HSP v.81

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James Buchanan, "Big wheel" of the railroads

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Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Date of Publication: 1952.

made them famous had not their political errors served to overshadow their other successes. The men referred to are the Fifteenth President of our Nation, the Honorable James Buchanan; and a Secretary of War under Mr. Buchanan's successor, the Honorable Simon Cameron. A unique pair indeed. Mr. Buchanan

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Responsibility: by Oliver S. Sprout.

Author: Sprout, Oliver S.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1952.

Physical Description: [21]-34 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 56, no. 2

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Columbia, Lancaster and Philadelphia Railroad (Pa.); Harrisburg, Portsmouth, Mt. Joy and Lancaster Railroad Company (Pa.); Pennsylvania Railroad.; Canals - Pennsylvania

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 56, number 2 (1952), p. 21-34Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.56

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Wheatland, 1848-1868; the home of James Buchanan

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Author: Butler, Joseph Thomas.

Date of Publication: 1957.

Call Number: 728.37 B985

Author: Butler, Joseph Thomas.

Place of Publication: Delaware

Publisher: Univ. of Delaware,

Date of Publication: 1957.

Physical Description: 57 p. ; 28 cm.

Notes: Bibliography:; . 53-57.

Contents: 2 pgs missing; pages from unknown document in their place.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Wheatland (Lancaster, Pa.); Historic buildings - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County

Call Number: 728.37 B985

Mr. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion

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Author: Buchanan, James,

Date of Publication: 1990,1865.

Call Number: 923.173 B918b 1990

Responsibility: James Buchanan.

ISBN: 083695212X :

Author: Buchanan, James,

Place of Publication: Salem. N.H

Publisher: Ayer Company, Publishers,

Date of Publication: 1990,1865.

Physical Description: x, 296 p. 22 cm.

Notes: Reprint of the 1865 ed.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - History - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Book

Call Number: 923.173 B918b 1990

Mr. Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion

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Date of Publication: 1866.

Call Number: 923.173 B918b

Place of Publication: New York

Publisher: D. Appleton and Company,

Date of Publication: 1866.

Physical Description: x, [9]-296 p. ; 24 cm.

Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; United States - History - 1815-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918b

James Buchanan and Ann Coleman

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Author: Klein, Philip Shriver,

Date of Publication: 1955

Inquirer, Dec. 30, 1950, quoting reminiscences of Dr. C. N. Hickok, of Bedford. Buchanan to William Wright, Presi of Columbia Bridge Co., Sept. 13, 1819,Foundation MSS; The Union, United States Gazette and True Amer- ican, Phila., Novi 30, 1810; Sheriff,s Appearance Docket, Lancaster, 1819- 1819, entries

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Responsibility: by Philip Shriver Klein.

Author: Klein, Philip Shriver,

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1955

Physical Description: 1-20 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 59, no. 1

Subjects: Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Coleman, Ann Caroline, - 1796-1819.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 59, number 1 (1955), p. 1-20Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.59

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The prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan, president of the United States, in behalf of Kansas, asking for a postponement of all the land sales in that territory, and for other relief : together with correspondence and other documents setting forth its deplorable destitution from the drought and famine : submitted under oath, October 29, 1860

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Author: Hyatt, Thaddeus,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Call Number: 923.173 B918hy

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Author: Hyatt, Thaddeus,

Place of Publication: Washington

Publisher: H. Polkinhorn, printer,

Date of Publication: 1860.

Physical Description: 70 p. ; 23 cm.

Notes: Running title: The Destination in Kansas.; "Mr Hyatt was an abolitionist and inventor. In his opposition to slavery, Hyatt organized the efforts of abolitionists in Kansas to have the territory admitted to the Union as a free-state and campaigned for the federal government to aid Kansans afflicted by drought. Hyatt befriended John Brown and provided Brown with financial support; following the raid on Harpers Ferry, Hyatt was investigated by a committee of the United States Senate." [from Wikipedia]

Subjects: Droughts - Kansas; Famines - Kansas; Public land sales - Kansas; Kansas - History - 1854-1861.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 923.173 B918hy

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Reports of the trials of Colonel Aaron Burr, (late vice president of the United States,) for treason, and for a misdemeanor, in preparing the means of a military expedition against Mexico, a territory of the King of Spain, with whom the United States were at peace. In the Circuit court of the United States, held at the city of Richmond, in the district of Virginia, in the summer term of the year 1807. To which is added, an appendix, containing the arguments and evidence in support and defence of the motion afterwards made by the counsel for the United States, to commit A. Burr, H. Blannerhassett [sic] and I. Smith to be sent for trial to the state of Kentucky, for treason or misdemeanor, alleged to be committed there

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Author: Burr, Aaron,

Date of Publication: 1808.

Call Number: Book 617 1808

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Responsibility: Taken in short hand by David Robertson ...

Author: Burr, Aaron,

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Published by Hopkins and Earle, Fry and Kammerer, printers,

Date of Publication: 1808.

Physical Description: 2 volumes 23 cm

Notes: LCHS wanting vol. 2.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 617 as assigned by Yeates.

Subjects: Burr, Aaron, - 1756-1836; Burr, Aaron, - 1756-1836.; Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807.; Trials (Treason) - United States.; Trials (Treason); United States.; Trials, litigation, etc.; Trial proceedings - Pennsylvania - 19th century.; Repaired spine on blue boards (Binding); Printed label on spine (Binding)

Additional Author: Blennerhassett, Harman,; Smith, I.; Robertson, David,; Yeates, Jasper,l

Additional Corporate Author: United States. Circuit Court (District of Virginia)

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 617 1808

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The memorial and petition of the president and directors of the Chesapeak and Delaware Canal Company, to the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. January 1, 1806

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Corporate Author: Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.

Date of Publication: 1806]

Call Number: 386.4 P544 1806

Corporate Author: Chesapeake and Delaware Canal Company.

Place of Publication: [Philadelphia

Publisher: s.n.,

Date of Publication: 1806]

Physical Description: 20 p. ; 21 cm.

Notes: "Signed by order and on behalf of the president and directors by two, George Fox. Joshua Gilpin. Philadelphia, January 1, 1806."--p. 8.; Includes also the memorial and petition of Feb. 1, 1805 (p. [9]-20).; Signatures: [A]â´ Bâ´ CÂ².; Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

Subjects: Canals - United States.; Canals.; Chesapeake and Delaware Canal (Del. and Md.); United States.; United States - Chesapeake and Delaware Canal.

Additional Corporate Author: Pennsylvania. General Assembly.

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Rare Books

Call Number: 386.4 P544 1806

The opinion of the Supreme Court of the United States : on the act of the 3d, of April 1792, delivered in February term, 1805, in the case of the lessee of H.I. Huidekoper vs. James Douglass : after argument on questions stated by the Circuit Court of the United States, in and for the Pennsylvania district of the Third Circuit, for the judgement and decision of the Supreme Court

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Corporate Author: United States. Supreme Court.

Date of Publication: [1805]

Call Number: Book 371a 1805

Corporate Author: United States. Supreme Court.

Place of Publication: Philadelphia

Publisher: Printed by Jane Aitken,

Date of Publication: [1805]

Physical Description: 11 pages

Notes: Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Book number 371a as assigned by Yeates.; With Report of the case of the commonwealth vs. Tench Coxe, Esq. on a motion for a Mandamus...Philadelphia, Jane Aitken, 1803.; With Report of the case of trespass & assault and battery wherein John Evans was pliantiff...Philadephhia, P. Byrne...1810.; With A narrataive of the religious society of the people called Quakers against John Evans...Philadelphia, sold by Thomas Dobson....1811.; Shaw & Shoemaker,

Subjects: Judicial opinions - United States.; Land settlement - Pennsylvania.; Judicial opinions.; Land settlement.; Pennsylvania.; United States.; Three-quarters leather with marbled boards (Binding)

Additional Author: Huidekoper, Harm Jan,; Douglass, James.; Yeates, Jasper,

Place: United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

Location: Lancaster History Library - Yeates Collection

Call Number: Book 371a 1805

John W. Forney, journalist and politician

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Author: Dowdell, George R.

Date of Publication: 1951

during the conflict between the States was openly critical of President Lincoln and the Civil War. Forney in this period took as an avowed editorial stand the policy "never to criticize the government in its hours of peril and trouble." James Melvin Lee, the prominent newspaper historian, commenting on

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Responsibility: by George R. Dowdell.

Author: Dowdell, George R.

Place of Publication: Lancaster, Pa

Publisher: Lancaster County Historical Society,

Date of Publication: 1951

Physical Description: [49]-67 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 55, no. 2

Subjects: Forney, John W. - 1817-1881.; Buchanan, James, - 1791-1868.; Journalists.; Politics, Practical.; Politicians - Pennsylvania.; United States - History - 19th century.

Contained In: Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 55, number 2 (1951), p. 49-67Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.55

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Portrait

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: Image of James Buchanan

Object ID: MG0096 F031 It03

Date Range: 1857-1861

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Collection: James Buchanan Collection

Title: Image of James Buchanan

Description: Image of James Buchanan while he was President, 1857-1861.

Date Range: 1857-1861

Year Range From: 1857

Year Range To: 1861

Storage Location: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA

Storage Room: Archives South

Storage Wall: Side 03

Storage Container: Box 0001

People: Buchanan, James

Subjects: Presidents--United States; Pictures; Portraits

Search Terms: Presidents; Pictures; Portraits; James Buchanan; Buchanan Collections; James Buchanan Presidential Library

Extent: 1 item, 2 pages to scan, 17.5 x13 cm

Object Name: Portrait

Language: English

Parent Object ID: MG0096

Object ID: MG0096 F031 It03

Location of Originals: LancasterHistory, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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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Other Number: MG-0096, Folder 031, Item 03

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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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Report of the trial of the Hon. Samuel Chase : one of the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, before the High Court of Impeachment, composed of the Senate of the United States, for charges exhibited against him by the House of Representatives, in the name of themselves, and of all the people of the United States for high crimes nd misdemeanors, supposed to have been by him committed : with the necessary documents and official papers, from his impeachment to final acquittal

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Author: Chase, Samuel,

Date of Publication: 1805.

Call Number: Book 618 1805

Responsibility: taken in short hand, by Charles Evans ; and the arguments of counsel revised by them from his manuscript.

Author: Chase, Samuel,

Place of Publication: Baltimore

Publisher: Printed for Samuel Butler and George Keatinge,

Date of Publication: 1805.

Physical Description: [6], 12, [3]-268 (i.e. 312), 68 pages ; 25 cm (8vo)

Notes: Pages 50-51 omitted in numbering; p. 205-212 repeated; extra numbered p. 101*-112*, 212* (i.e. 213*)-230*, 237*-244*.; "Appendix. Impeachment of the Hon. Samuel Chase, with the articles exhibited against him by the House of Representatives; also his answer and pleas, exhibits, and the replication of the House of Representatives, &c. &c.": 68 p. at end, with separate title page.; Trial January 2-March 1, 1805, for alleged misdemeanors in the political trials of Fries and Callender.--cf. Sabin, Dictionary of books relating to America.; Jasper Yeates's Colonial Law Library.; Yeates's signature at top of title page.; Book number 618 as assigned by Yeates.