American Sheraton bookcase has a flat overhanging molded cornice. Upper cabinet enclosed by a pair of glazed doors, each with six oblong panes set in straight molded mullions. Doors flanked at sides and center by narrow plain stiles, hung with butt hinges. The lower cabinet has two raised panel doors flanked at sides and center by narrow plain stiles and hung with butt hinges. The lower cabinet has two center swing raised panel doors that surmounts four bracket feet at the corners.
An ornamental branched candlestick resembling a small chandelier. The figure on this girandole is a helmeted Roman soldier in front of a post with three leaf covered branches for holding candles each one enhanced by 12 crystal 2-part prisms.
Provenance
William Jenkins
Sarah Muench
James Buchanan Foundation for the Preservation of Wheatland
Photograph- Gravestone of William Jenkins, Rebecca Jenkins, Margaret J. Allison, William Bentley and Hannah P. Bentley at Middle Octoraro Presbyterian Church.
Photograph- Gravestone of William Jenkins, Rebecca Jenkins, Margaret J. Allison, William Bentley and Hannah P. Bentley at Middle Octoraro Presbyterian Church.
Description
Gravestone of William Jenkins, Rebecca Jenkins, Margaret J. Allison, William Bentley and Hannah P. Bentley at Middle Octoraro Presbyterian Church.
The City Police Department poses for the photographer. Front row, left to right: Det. Howard Anderson, Chief Guy Eckman, Mayor Frank Musser, Agnes Ferriter, first Lancaster City policewoman, Det. George Parmer, Lieut. Frank Bradycamp. Seated in sidecar behind Det. Howard Anderson is Sgt. Elwood Gainor who was killed in the line of duty in 1927. Man with goggles is Edward Sullenberger. Also pictured are the following:
Shannon Hartley
James Crawford
David Shank
Lewis Matt
Ray Charles
Sgt. Blaine Silvius
John Wilkinson
clerk Albert F. Montgomery
Myron Boettner
Lewis Piersol
Ross Brubaker
Ray Rohrer
William Bitts
David Kauffman
Ivan Eberly
Edward Lapman
Morgan Medlar
John Kauffman
Charles McNutt
F. Reinhart
Walter Yarnall
Joseph Godino
Carl Wenninger
Edward Millen - first African-American police officer on Lancaster's police force
Oval top empire-style table with side skirt. Skirt has beaded top and bottom. Table divides to accomodate four leaves. Four-sided reeded central pillar with two turned feet underneath and four c-scrolled supports. Solid base with four radial, long legs w
Undocumented stories claim that this table was ordered by William Jenkins in 1828, the year he had the Wheatland mansion built, and that it has conveyed to each subsequent owner with the deed. The table dates from the first quarter of the nineteenth century and might attributed to the Bachman cabinetmakers.
