Leighton W. Rogers Papers 1912-1982 (bulk 1912-1944)

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Leighton W. Rogers Papers 1912-1982 (bulk 1912-1944)

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Aeronautical executive, army officer, and public official. Correspondence, diary and journal, biographical information, scrapbooks, map, and writings focusing on Rogers’s experiences as an employee of National City Bank of New York during the Russian revolution in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and his return to the Soviet Union in 1943-1944 as an aeronautical consultant for the United States Army Air Corps.

26 items; 4 containers plus 1 oversize; 1.5 linear feet

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Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6356260

Library of Congress. Manuscript Division

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