Charles B. Bolles-Rogers and family guest book, 1928 January 17-1944 July 16.

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Charles B. Bolles-Rogers and family guest book, 1928 January 17-1944 July 16.

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A guest book or party register used by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bolles-Rogers, containing 146 signed pages. The Rogers apparently used it not only when entertaining in their own home, but brought it to other social events and on their travels. Among the hundreds of signatures, some appear dozens of times, including many of the leading families of Twin Cities society of the time, including the Pillsburys, the Weyerhausers, the Heffelfingers, the Kelloggs, and the Wells. The book also contains signatures of such well-known figures as Sinclair Lewis, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Archduke Felix of Austria.

1 guest book (ca. 250 p.) ; 24 cm.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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SNAC Resource ID: 6916782

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Rogers family.

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Bolles-Rogers, Charles B.

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Charles Bolles Bolles-Rogers was born circa 1884 and died in 1975. He graduated from Williams college in 1904 and was assistant commissioner of the American Red Cross during World War II. He also served as treasurer of the F.H. Peavey Company. He was an avid art collector, and his portrait was painted by Diego Rivera in 1942. An award named for him is given annually to a physician for outstanding research by the Hennepin Medical Society. Bolles-Rogers and his wife, Mary Van Dusen Rogers, had thr...

Rogers, Mary Van Dusen.

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Lewis, Sinclair, 1885-1951

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Sinclair Lewis (b. Feb. 7, 1885, Sauk Centre, MN–d. January 10, 1951, Rome, Italy) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1930. ...