Honoring Lancaster County’s Medal of Honor Recipients
A color lithograph of an aerial view of Wheatland and the land surrounding it.

James Buchanan, Gentleman Farmer
A young Asian-American man in a military uniform stands in a fighting ready position with boxing gloves on his hands.

Pathways of Persistence: A Collaboration Between LancasterHistory and Lancaster Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

A Brief History of the Stahr Armory
Mrs. Lydia Hamilton Smith

Lydia Hamilton Smith: A Multifaceted Woman

Near the Hearth Where it Happened

The Buzzards Are Here! The Buzzards Are Here!

Grave Markers and Memorial Plaques

Christmas Cards by Florence Starr Taylor

Christmas From Around the World – All In One Window

An Artist’s Scrapbook – Florence Starr Taylor

The Mystery of the Washington Number 4 Datestone

Then and Now: Witmer’s Bridge

Stamp Act: Commemorating the Centennial Visit of the Japanese Embassy to the United States
A vibrant contemporary photo of historic brick buildings along a road.

Seeking Education & Programs Manager

The Mystery of the Cannon Ballot Box

Meet LancasterHistory’s Summer Intern Class of 2024

LancasterHistory Completes Large Digitization Project of Historical Scrapbooks

Revisiting the Meaning and Purpose of Lancaster’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument

Restoring John Wise’s Velocipede

The Voice & The Silk Gown: Marian Anderson’s Visit to J.P. McCaskey High School

Marietta Quilt: First in Space
The Trannells in 1965. Pictured left to right - Howard Washington, Chet Stewart, Dave MacPhail, Joan Stewart, Ernie Jamison, and Jim Jackson.

Preserving the Legacy of Black Performing Artists From Lancaster County

The Spanish-American War and the Philadelphia Peace Jubilee of 1898

Consumption: The Worldwide Epidemic’s Impact on the Buchanan Family

Lancaster County Historical Society Member Badge and Ribbon

Spencer F. Wilkerson: The 7th Ward Undertaker
The Bonitz razor.

A President’s Razor & The Tragedy at Lafayette Square

Meet LancasterHistory’s Summer Intern Class of 2023

James Buchanan’s White House China
Photograph portrait of Harriet Lane Johnston, ca.1890

A Royal Association: Chronicling Harriet Lane’s Connection to the Royal Family

The Life & Accomplishments of Hong Neok Woo
Close up image of a Victorian-era image manipulation to reduce waist size.

Victorian Photoshop: How Altering Waist Sizes Affects Modern Perception of Body Diversity

Introducing the New (Old) Butler’s Pantry at Wheatland

Commemorative Plaque Returns to Franklin and Marshall College

Honoring Ann Wood Henry

Lancaster Suffragists Remembered
Bronze medal featuring profile image of Thaddeus Stevens

Thaddeus Stevens and the Mystery of the Masonic Medal
Six young students stand before Wheatland.

Meet Our NEH Summer Intern Class of 2022

Electing Buchanan

Commemorating Buchanan
Harriet Lane

Harriet Lane Johnston: A Lifetime of Loss
The title page of Charles J. Swarr's hand drawn picture book, self-published in 1863

Teeny Tiny Book, Big Imagination
Slant-front desk exterior showing four long drawers under an open lid to reveal a writing surface and storage spaces.

The Case of the Secret Compartment
James Buchanan's Bedchamber

Tracing Peter Hilliard’s Timeline at Wheatland: Part II
James Buchanan's Bedchamber

Tracing Peter Hilliard’s Timeline at Wheatland: Part I
Painting of a Ship at Sea by James Buchanan Henry

James Buchanan Henry, Artist
Engraving of The National Hotel in 1837

A Fatal Hotel Booking: The National Hotel Disease
Photograph of Wheatland's front porch in winter

Winter Wedding at Wheatland

Was Buchanan a Humbug?
Photograph of reproduction cotton fabric

A Brief History of Natural Fibers

How Industry Operates: Frank Soltesz and the Art of Cutaway Illustrations
Illustration of Mourning Dress from 1883 Publication of The Queen

Mid-Late Victorian Mourning Dress
Harvey Williams's bike shop at 626 - 628 West Orange Street

Looking For a Date | Save Your Photos Month

Commemorating Nuclear Weapons Elimination Day, September 26
Detail of the Rose family album c. 1890

All About Albums | Save Your Photos Month
The featured image for "Putting It On Paper" blog.

Putting It On Paper | Save Your Photos Month
Pennsylvania Freeman

Commemorating the Christiana Resistance

Just In Case | Save Your Photos Month
Daguerreotype of John Hinkle

Save Your Photos
Photograph of the interior of the smokehouse looking out through the smokehouse door.

Doors in the Sky and on the Ground: The Icehouse and Smokehouse
Historic image of a group of 13 men from the Lancaster Camera Club sitting on a small wooded hillside with their cameras and tripods.

Celebrate World Photography Day, August 19, 2021!
llustration of Wheatland's Stable and Carriage House from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1857

Of Buildings Past: Outbuildings at Wheatland no Longer Extant
A historic image of a Quaker Rug promotion staged by a Los Angeles wholesaler in March 1941. The promotion includes vertical rolled stacks of flooring and a section of Play Rug pattern number 4595

Nursery Rhyme Time with Armstrong Quaker-Felt Rugs
A historic photograph of the interior of the Armstrong Pavilion. Ionic columns flank the entrance with a sign saying "Armstrong Cork Company, Pittsburgh, PA." The interior features different displays and wood furnishings.

Armstrong Goes to the (World’s) Fair, An Addendum
Image of the LeFevre Bible.

The LeFevre Bible

Meet the Class of 2021 Summer Interns
Photograph of Wheatland's Privy

How Victorian Women used the Privy in Multiple Layers of Clothing
Demuth Self Portrait close up

Art is Everywhere

The Edison of Lancaster, PA

Eureka!
The Fulton Opera House after renovations in 1995

The Grand Old Lady of Prince Street
Lancaster County Prison c 1880

Most Creative Use of a Canary
A photograph of Buchanan's desk

From India to The White House to Wheatland: The Journey of the Presidential Desk

Memorial Day: Honoring Armstrong Employees Who Died in World War II
World War I Memorial Plaque

Memorial Day: Honoring Armstrong Employees Who Died in World War I
Guest Bedchamber at Wheatland

The House Stretches: Updates to Wheatland
Framed lithograph prints of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

The Intrigue behind Lithographs of the Royal Family
Thomas Welsh

General Thomas Welsh: County Native, Devoted Father and Husband, Respected Soldier

A Few of Buchanan’s Favorite Things
Moving Day, 1941

April First—Flitting Day

Women’s History Month – Women Who Made History at Armstrong Cork Company
The Dining Room at Wheatland

Dining with Buchanan

Women’s History Month – Catherine Hershey and The Lancaster Charity Society

Lancaster’s Renowned Aviatrix: Helen Jones Carter

Crinolinomania: The War on Mid-19th Century Women’s Fashion
Bank of America Building, San Francisco International Exhibition. Photo: LancasterHistory, Armstrong Archive.

Armstrong Goes to the (World’s) Fair, Part 2
The Blue Ball Inn, c. 1870s

The Queen Desperado
Ad for The Equalizer from the 1873-1874 Lancaster City Directory

The Equalizer

Armstrong Goes to the (World’s) Fair, Part 1
Dr. Stephen Lockey and Nurse Landis administer Polio vaccine c. 1955

This Won’t Hurt A Bit

So You Want To Learn About James Buchanan?: A Resource Guide

This Program Brought To You By | Part 3

This Program Brought To You By | Part 2

This Program Brought To You By | Part 1

Armstrong in Australia
Armstrong Manor, 1920s

A Brief History of The Manor on Lititz Pike

Lancaster’s Cork Connection | Part 3

Foiling Influenza
Catherine Ellis (in blue gown) standing next to Harriet Lane, who is holding a parasol. James Buchanan is standing by tomb. Portrait: Thomas P. Rossiter, "Visit of the Prince of Wales, President Buchanan, and Dignitaries to the Tomb of Washington at Mount Vernon, October 1860," 1861 (Smithsonian American Art Museum).

The Disappearance of the Portrait of Mrs. Ellis

All the President’s Pets

Lancaster’s Cork Connection | Part 2

A Stitch is Worth a Thousand Words, Part V: Completion and Reflection

Lancaster’s Cork Connection | Part I

A Stitch is Worth a Thousand Words, Part IV: Attaching Skirt to Bodice

A Titanic Story: Milton Hershey’s Near Sail on the RMS Titanic

A Stitch is Worth a Thousand Words, Part III: The Skirt

Milton S. Hershey: A Favorite Son of Lancaster

A Stitch is Worth a Thousand Words, Part II: The Bodice

A Stitch is Worth a Thousand Words, Part I: Recreating an Early 1800s Gown
Lara the Dog

The President’s Puppy
Willie Siple with a customer in his news stand

Willie Siple’s News Stand
Image of 19th century fashion plate

Make No (Whale)Bones About It: Debunking those Corsetry Myths
two letters from hospital

The Kegel Chronicles, Part Three
letter from France

The Kegel Chronicles, Part Two

The Kegel Chronicles, Part One
The Silver Hook Fishing Club shows off their catch, c. 1910.

Gone Fishin’
Image of a young woman under a stage spotlight.

Lancaster’s Theater Row & The Krupa Family Empire
Christmas trees at Penn Square in the early 1900s

O, Christmas Tree
tea cake from old recipe

Historical baking

Treasure Island

“It ought to be a Great Fair!”
Image of historic items inside the Richard C. von Hess Decorative Arts Center at LancasterHistory.org.

A Collection of Historic Proportions – Fig Fall 2018

Wettest. Summer. Ever.

James Buchanan: George Washington Fanboy
Swimming at the Keiper Long home in the 1920s

Pool Party
Leaving for a weekend in the woods at Mt. Gretna

Girls Weekend!
1837 National Hotel invoice detail

The Buchanan Grip

Green Space

McMaster’s Masterpieces
Buchanan Memoirs

Mr. Buchanan’s Bungled Biographies
Stained glass windows in the Women's Memorial Room at the Unitarian Church in Lancaster

Dedicated to the Ladies
The Junior Herd of the Conestoga Elks Lodge poses for the camera in front of their lodge at 452 South Duke Street in Lancaster

The Junior Herd
Peter Oliver_title image

How Peter Oliver freed himself
James Buchanan Welcomes Japanese Delegation

The President and the Punch Bowl
Blanche Nevin on her porch at Windsor Forge

A Visit to Windsor Forge
Image of women employed by a railway.

Happy New Year 1918: Same same but different
A doctor positions a man dressed as Santa for a chest x-ray.

Healthy Holidays

Crocheting service wear for your soldier…

Healthy German Men and Women To Be Sold…
Sgt. Ray Baker Hall and his ukulele, c.1918

The Great War
Glasses of "old Monongahela" on Mr. Buchanan's library desk at Wheatland.

“Finer Than the Best Monongahela”: President Buchanan’s Drinking Habits
Image of a crowd surveying the Dwarf Conifer Garden.

Experience The Arboretum
A man in a Susquehanna water-filled pothole.

Susquehanna Potholes
Wild canaries from Madeira.

The Tragic Tale of Dick the Canary