Isaac T. Rogers and George I. Rogers scrapbooks, 1712-1891 (bulk 1840-1891) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection consists of two scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, printed ephemera, personal papers, letters, and memorabilia concerning the life and career of Connecticut merchant and politician Isaac T. Rogers. The earliest scrapbook was kept by Rogers, and holds letters to him from Phineas T. Barnum (1865 and 1890), accompanied by photographs of Barnum and of the wedding of Tom Thumb; James Dixon (1868); Daniel Coit Gilman (1868 and 1869); Charles Tudor Hillyer (1840); Julius Hotchkiss (1869), and Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1867 and 1868). Also present are apprenticeship indentures signed by Rogers; his American passport issued in London and signed by James Buchanan (1855); Connecticut state and United States military appointments and orders signed by William Wolcott Ellsworth, Charles Tudor Hillyer, and Charles Roberts Ingersoll; political memorabilia and printed items documenting Rogers's service in the Connecticut General Assembly; federal and Confederate currency of the Civil War period; and newspaper clippings and pamphlets relating to the history of Milford, Connecticut. The earliest item in the scrapbook is the front page from The Spectator (London), no. 263, January 1, 1712; the volume also contains small advertising brochures for the Rogers brothers' stores in New York and London