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Title: Martin W. Rogers Family
Dates: 1893-1993
Collection Number: MSS 11284
Quantity: .5 feet
Abstract: Consists of correspondence and photographs of the Martin W. Rogers family. Rogers lived in Austin (Minn.) and corresponded with family members who lived in Plaza (N.D.), Palermo (N.D.), and Mountrail County (N.D.). Topics discussed in the correspondence include family matters, the 1918 influenza pandemic, World War I, hunting, and farming. The bulk dates of the correspondence are 1893-1919. One family member was the sheriff in Palermo (N.D.), ca. 1919. Photographs include members of the Rogers, McGinley, and Quammen families. Also includes a brief summary of the letters from 1993 and funeral programs for family members.
Provenance: The collection was donated to the State Historical Society of North Dakota in March 2016 by Ron A. McLean.
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BOX / FOLDER INVENTORY
Box 1:
1 Correspondence from Lydia Rogers to children, ca. 1884
2 Correspondence from Jessie Rogers to cousin Edith Rogers, 1893
3 Correspondence from E. J. Philpott to Bessie (Bresee) Rogers, 1902
4 Correspondence from H. H. Bresee to Bessie (Bresee) Rogers, 1903-1906
5 Correspondence from Edith (Rogers) Quammen to parents Martin W. and Bessie Rogers, 1917-1918
6 Correspondence from Ray to father (possibly Martin W. Rogers), 1918
7 Correspondence from Leslie Markell to grandfather Martin W. Rogers and sister Elizabeth Markell, 1918-1919
8 Correspondence from George Rogers to father Martin W. Rogers, 1918-1919
9 Correspondence from Beth Rogers and Phillip Rogers to grandmother Bessie Rogers, 1918
10 Correspondence from Harry M. Rogers to parents Martin W. and Bessie Rogers, n.d.
11 Summary of correspondence, 1993
12 Funeral programs, 1953-1988
Box 2: Photographs
11284-00001 – 11284-00041 Negatives of the Rogers, McGinely, and Quammen families taken in possibly Minot (N.D.) or Grand Forks (N.D.) – see inventory below
11284-00042 Tintype found in correspondence
Box 3: Photographs
11284-00043 – 11284-00049 Prints
Photographs Inventory
11284-00001 Leslie Markell in military uniform, ca. 1918
11284-00002 Man on crutches, ca. 1918
11284-00003 Group of people, ca. 1918
11284-00004 Men, woman, and child posing in front of house, ca. 1918
11284-00005 Two young children sitting in front of house, ca. 1918
11284-00006 Men and woman stand in front of house, ca. 1918
11284-00007 Child stands in front of school building, ca. 1918
11284-00008 Woman standing near house in yard, ca. 1925
11284-00009 Man in field, ca. 1925
11284-00010 Man next to automobile, ca. 1930
11284-00011 Woman and children in front of house, ca. 1925
11284-00012 Two children in baby carriage and chair, ca. 1925
11284-00013 Children in yard, ca. 1925
11284-00014 Children on porch of house, ca. 1925
11284-00015 Child in wash bucket, ca. 1925
11284-00016 Woman with two children, one in a baby carriage, ca. 1925
11284-00017 Child in baby carriage, ca. 1925
11284-00018 Man, woman, and children on porch of house, ca. 1925
11284-00019 Man standing in front of house, ca. 1930
11284-00020 Woman posing in front of house, ca. 1930
11284-00021 Two children in yard, ca. 1925
11284-00022 Children in yard, ca. 1925
11284-00023 Child on side of house with a bicycle, ca. 1925
11284-00024 Girl with infant in baby carriage, ca. 1925
11284-00025 Children on porch, ca. 1925
11284-00026 Child picking flowers in yard, ca. 1925
11284-00027 Child and woman on porch, ca. 1925
11284-00028 Man, woman, and child on porch, ca. 1920
11284-00029 Man, woman, and child on porch, ca. 1920
11284-00030 Woman holding infant with child in background, ca. 1920
11284-00031 Child in garden holding plants, ca. 1925
11284-00032 Exterior of house, ca. 1925
11284-00033 Man, woman, and children stand in front of house, ca. 1920
11284-00034 Two women and two boys, ca. 1940
11284-00035 Two boys, ca. 1940
11284-00036 Women and boys on porch, women are preparing a food and one boy is holding a gun, ca. 1940
11284-00037 Women and boys on porch, women preparing food, ca. 1940
11284-00038 Two women standing on bridge, ca. 1940
11284-00039 Two women standing on bridge, ca. 1940
11284-00040 Two women standing on bridge, ca. 1940
11284-00041 Two boys playing on bridge with lake in background, ca. 1940
11284-00042 Tintype of man, ca. 1880
11284-00043 Gordon and Roger Quammen in blacksmith shop, possibly in Stanley (N.D.), ca. 1948
11284-00044 Hazel Quammen at old schoolhouse on the farm in Plaza (N.D.), ca. 1925
11284-00045 Leslie Markell in his “home on wheels” on the farmland near Parshall (N.D.), 1948
11284-00046 Les Albin on farmland south of Parshall (N.D.), 1948
11284-00047 Leslie Markell and Les Albin’s farm equipment on farmland south of Parshall (N.D.), 1948
11284-00048 Leslie Markell and Conrad with International Harvester tractor used to haul rocks off farmland south of Parshall (N.D.), 1948
11284-00049 George Rogers on horse, ca. 1925
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