Rogers Memorial Collection: Rogers Memorial Room records, 1930-1966.

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Rogers Memorial Collection: Rogers Memorial Room records, 1930-1966.

This collection consists of records kept by the Harvard Theatre Collection concerning the administration of the Rogers Memorial Collection, including bookplates, catalog cards, inventories, memoranda, a rubber stamp, and a visitors' book, as well as papers concerning the publication of "The Rogers Memorial Room. An Account of the Nature, Origin, and Significance of the Memorabilia Presented to Harvard College in 1930 by Clara Kathleen and Henry Munroe Rogers" ([Boston] : Cosmos Press, 1935).

1 box (.5 linear feet)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8325752

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Harvard college library

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The Harvard College Library used ledgers to record the loans of books from the library's collection during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The presence of what appear to be call-slips from 1823 to 1826 and the lack of ledgers for this period is unaccounted for in the literature cited in the bibliography. Late in the nineteenth century, librarians recognized that the ledger system could not provide the flexibility needed to control large collections. At the Harvard College L...

Harvard Theatre Collection

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Rogers, Henry Munroe, 1839-1937

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Henry Munroe Rogers and Clara Kathleen Rogers amassed a substantial collection of theatrical and military memorabilia over the course of their long lives, mostly as part of their personal papers. In 1930, they donated these papers to Harvard College Library. The Rogers Memorial Room on the top floor of Widener Library was set aside to house the collection, and opened in 1935. The Rogers Memorial Room was relocated to the Harvard Theatre Collection's space in Lamont Library in 1949. Building reno...

Rogers Memorial Collection.

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