Guy and Nell Rogers papers, 1920-1965 (bulk 1930-1935).

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Guy and Nell Rogers papers, 1920-1965 (bulk 1930-1935).

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Correspondence, legal papers, printed items, speeches and essays, and one photograph. Correspondence consists primarily of responses to Guy and Nell Rogers communications with other socialists and relates principally to Newllano, a socialist cooperative colony, and The People's Industrial System, a socialist organization. Legal papers include property and warranty deeds as well as copies of stock certificates for the Llano Co-operative Colony. Printed items contain newsletters, applications for the colonies, and a survey of property in Alachua County, Fl., as well as extensive tracts on socialist thought. Printed items also include a number of newspaper clippings concerning socialist politics. The speeches and essays relate to The People's Industrial System, and one photograph of Nell Foster Rogers circa 1964.

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Louisiana State University, LSU Libraries

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Rogers family.

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Foster, George G., -1856

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Mine operator, Spokane, Washington. From the description of Papers, 1897-1914. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853223 American publisher. From the description of Letters to Rufus Wilmot Griswold [manuscript], 1835-1841. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647817320 ...

Pickett, George T., 1876-1959.

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George T. Pickett was a socialist, a member, and later a leader of the Llano Colony, a cooperative society which was organized in California in 1914. In 1918, part of the colony migrated to Newllano (sometimes called New Llano), Louisiana, near Leesville in Vernon Parish. From the description of Papers, 1883-1960. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122505666 ...

People's Industrial System.

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Llano Colony (Secular community)

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Utopian socialist community formed in 1914 in Southern Calif.; moved to La. in 1917; declared bankruptcy in 1936; attempt to recover assets begun in 1959. From the description of Llano del Rio records, 1911-1969. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122642341 The Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony was incorporated in 1914 by Los Angeles attorney Job Harriman, the socialist nominee for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911. The settlement was located in California's Ant...

Rogers, Nell Foster, 1885-1974.

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Webster, Sheridan.

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Rogers, Guy F.

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Husband and wife Guy and Nell Foster Rogers were colonists at the Newllano colony (sometimes called New Llano), La., near Leesville in Vernon Parish. The Llano Colony was a socialist cooperative society which was organized in California in 1914. Some of its members migrated to Newllano, La., in 1918. Guy Rogers printed the colony's newspaper THE LLANO COLONIST. The Rogers came to Newllano from Michigan in late 1927 and left in early 1929 over what they deemed to be colony leader George T. Picket...