Manuscript Collection Inventory
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Joseph Blackburn Rogers, Papers, 1898-1976
Box 1
I.
Correspondence
1.
2.
3.
3A.
5.
Joseph B. Rogers to Personal Correspondents, 1899-1934
Joseph B. Rogers to Potential Donors, 1921-30
Joseph B. Rogers to Miscellaneous Correspondents, 1919-34
Theodore Roosevelt, New York City, to Joseph B. Rogers,
Dec. 15, 1916
Miscellaneous Correspondents to Joseph B. Rogers, 1898-1933,
(including an anonymous Lincoln critic, June 11, 1931)
Third-Party Correspondence, 1902-34
II.
LaSalle Avenue Baptist Church Papers
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Announcements and Invitations, 1920-31
Brochures and Pamphlets, 1914-34
Church Covenant, n.d.
Description of Activities and Organizations, 1923
Financial Papers, 1918-34
List of Marriages Performed, 1918-26
Lists of Members, 1923 and n.d.
Minutes, 1922, 1927
Missions Map, 1927 [missing]
Petition, Opposing Interference in Church Affairs by
General Baptist Council, 1932
Real Estate Listing Form, n.d.
Receipts, 1928 and 1931
Resolutions, Supporting Prohibition and Asking for Return
of Deed from General Baptist Council, 1921, 1926, 1932
Roger Williams Apartments, 1928
Sunday Schools, 1912, 1924-25, 1937
4.
16.
17.
18.
19.
20.
III. Personal Papers
21.
22.
23.
24.
25.
26.
27.
28.
29.
30.
31.
Bank Deposits, 1927
Death Notices, 1915, n.d.
Liberty Loan Campaign, 1918-19
Memorial Service of Joseph B. Rogers, 1934
Pamphlet, "A Brief Statement of the Fundamentalist
Position," 1927
Prohibition, n.d.
Railroad Pass, Chicago and North Western Railroad, 1926
Recreation, 1924[?]
Sermons, n.d.
Songs and Poems, n.d.
Writings, 1924 and n.d.
IV.
Genealogy
32.
33.
Application to D.A.R., D. Katharine Rogers, 1923
Vita, D. Katharine Rogers, 1976[?]
Box 2
34.
D. Katharine Rogers, "A Search for Identity: Unfinished
Business," manuscript, 1976
Box 3
V.
Photographs
35.
36.
37.
38.
39.
40.
James B. Rogers
Rogers Family
LaSalle Avenue Baptist Church
Church Activities
Church Apartments
Satellite Churches
VI.
Ephemera
41.
42.
American Flag, approximately 10"x12"
Books, How to Gesture by Ed. Amherst Ott (Des Moines,
1892), and Living Hymns (Philadelphia, 1923)
Lock of Hair, Unidentified
Newspapers, Quincy [Ill.] Citizen, Dec. 1, 1910, and
June 1, 1911
43.
44.