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A Finding Aid to the Marjorie Manter Rogers Collection, 1781-1969

Descriptive Summary

Repository Martha's Vineyard Museum Gale Huntington Research Library
59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508) 627-4441
Call Number RU546
Creator Rogers, Marjorie Manter, 1928-2013
Title Marjorie Manter Rogers Collection
Date 1781-1969
Extent 2 boxes, 2 folders
Language The materials are in English.
Abstract The collection consists of materials regarding Martha's Vineyard collected by islander, Marjorie Manter Rogers.

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Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use and Reproduction Restrictions

Requests to reproduce material from this collection should be directed to the library's staff. Reproduction fees may apply.

Preferred Citation

Martha's Vineyard Museum, RU546, Marjorie Manter Rogers Collection.

Acquisition Information

  • Acquired from a sale at the Marjorie Manter Rogers's house and farm in 2013 (Accession no. 2013.019). [Purchase]

Publication Information

Martha's Vineyard Museum

Gale Huntington Research Library
59 School Street
P.O. Box 1310
Edgartown, MA 02539
(508) 627-4441

Processing Information

Finding aid prepared and machine-encoded by Clint Johnson in June 2015.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

See also, oral history interviews with Marjorie Manter Rogers and Harold Rogers.

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Index Terms

Genre(s)

  • Photograph albums
  • Photographs
  • Ephemera (printed)
  • Yearbooks
  • Receipts (financial records)
  • Negatives (photographic)
  • Drawings
  • Paper work (visual works)
  • Autograph albums

Subject(s)

  • Martha's Vineyard (Mass.)--History
  • Horsemanship
  • Steamboat lines--Massachusetts--Martha's Vineyard--History
  • Hurricane damage

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Biography/Historical Note

Marjorie Manter Rogers was born to an old Vineyard family in 1928. She studied in Maine until she returned to Martha's Vineyard where she married Harold D. Rogers and moved to Meadowbrook Farm in West Tisbury. She had worked at the Martha's Vineyard Bank, was an horseback rider, and had coordinated the West Tisbury Harvest Festival in her later years. She passed away in 2013.

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Scope and Content of Collection

The collection is predominately made up of photographs collected by Marjorie Manter Rogers regarding Martha's Vineyard. It also includes ephemera, paper works, an autograph album, a drawing, and a yearbook.

Arrangement

  • Series I: Miscellaneous Vineyard objects
  • Series II: Photographs

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Contents of Collection

Miscellaneous Vineyard objects, 1781, 1880-1959 
Box Folder

The Overalls and Daniel, 8 weeks old drawing, undated 
 2013.019.004
Author/Creator:  Emily Manter Baxter

 Flat 156 1

Paperwork hanging pocket, 1800-1900 
 2013.019.005

 Flat 169 2

Ephemera, 1781, 1890-1891, undated 
 2013.019.007

 1 3

Autograph album, circa 1880 
 2013.019.008

 1 4

Tisbury High School yearbook, 1959 
 

 1 5

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Photographs, 1893-1947 
Box Folder

Cottle Farm photographic album, circa 1906 
 

 1 6

Steamship and other Maritime photographs, undated 
 

 1 7

Steamship and other Maritime photographs, undated 
 

 1 8

Tom Thomb Wedding Group photograph, undated 
 

 1 9

Riding class photograph, 1969 
 2013.019.006
Author/Creator:  Alfred Eisenstaedt

 1 10

Steamroller on Martha's Vineyard photograph, undated 
 2013.019.009

 1 11

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.010

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.011

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.012

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.013

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.014

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.015

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.016

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.017

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.018

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.019

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.020

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.021

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.022

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.023

 1 12

Hurricane of 1944 photograph, 1944 
 2013.019.024

 1 12

Locust Grove School House photograph, 1893 
 2013.019.025

 1 13

Edgartown photographs, circa 1940 
 

 1 14

Hurricane of 1938 photographs, 1938 
 

 1 14

Shipwreck photographs, undated 
 

 1 14

Trap Fishing negatives (photographic), 1947 
 

 1 14

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