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Collection
History Collection: Business & Industry
Object ID
1976.011
Collection
History Collection: Business & Industry
Description
Buttonhook for gloves and collars. Made of stamped steel handle and heavy gauge wire loop hook at one end and oval shaped tip at other end. Mid-section of handle is flattened on both sides with raised letters: one side is "SOUTTER, BUCHANAN & YOUNG." and 2nd side is "FOR GLOVES AND COLLARS".
This Lancaster City business was Dry Good, Fancy Goods, Cloaks and Millinery. Listed in City Directories 1897-1909, then Buchanan & Young for several years, followed by Buchanan & Brown circa 1916. All at the same North Queen Street Address.
115-117 N. Queen St., Lancaster
Year Range From
1897
Year Range To
1909
Made By
Soutter, Buchanan & Young
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
DAC
Storage Wall
Island 4
Storage Cabinet
Unit 19
Storage Container
Box 0231
Subcategory
Clothing -- Accessory
Object Name
Buttonhook
Material
Steel
Length (in)
3.5
Width (in)
0.25
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2014-09-22
Condition Notes
Scattered corrosion with heavy concentration at "ferrule."
Object ID
1976.011
Notes
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Place of Origin
Lancaster
Accession Number
1976.011
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Collection
Wheatland
Object ID
W.1943.001.001
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Collection
Wheatland
Description
American Rococo Revival Walnut Sofa. The serpentine back centered by a rose and shell scrolled carved crest, the back joined to closed arms, with a serpentine apron and raised on cabriole legs terminating in casters, silk velvet upholstery.
Provenance
James Buchanan
To - Edward Y. Buchanan
To - Alice Conyngham Buchanan Ewing
To - Cornelia Ewing Brooke
To - The James Buchanan Foundation
Year Range From
1845
Year Range To
1860
Last Owner
Buchanan, James
Storage Location
Wheatland, Lancaster, PA
Storage Room
Parlor
Storage Wall
West Wall
People
Brooke, Cornelia Lansdale Ewing
Buchanan, Edward Young
Buchanan, James
Ewing, Alice Conyngham Buchanan
Subcategory
Furniture
Search Terms
Buchanan Collections
Furniture
James Buchanan
James Buchanan Presidential Library
Sofas
Object Name
Sofa
Material
Walnut
Height (in)
44.562
Width (in)
88
Condition
Good
Condition Date
2003-10-02
Condition Notes
Re-upholstered in the 1940s.
Object ID
W.1943.001.001
Place of Origin
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Accession Number
W.1943.001
Images
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