Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Papers of John Carr Rogers, Accession #6803-aq, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

These materials from the estate of John Carr Rogers were purchased by the University of Virginia Library from Daniel G. Joyce, Blacksburg, Virginia, on August 30, 2001.

Biographical/Historical Information

Rogers contributed to small magazines like The Rebel Poet and The Anvil in the thirties, was an artist with the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935 until he transferred to the Federal Writer's Project, and served in the army during World War II, as Staff Sergeant, 1050th Army Air Forces Base Unit (1942-1945). After the war, he attended the Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C., full-time under the G.I. Bill. Rogers passed the Civil Service examination for Illustrator and began working as a government artist. At one point he was suspended from government work for "subversive activity" but later won reinstatement and back pay through the courts. His drawings became a standard feature of the Travel Section of The Washington Daily News , which later also contained Rogers' own illustrated articles. Many of these travel drawings are present in the collection.

Scope and Content

This collection consists of the papers of artist John Carr Rogers (1907-1979) of Alexandria, Virginia, ca. 1910-1978, 1993, and undated, ca. 1,500 items (7 Hollinger boxes, ca. 3 linear feet), including correspondence, legal papers, photographs, photograph albums, negatives, and slides, including some artwork by Rogers. Rogers' artwork includes watercolors, pen and ink drawings, pastels, cartoons, illustrations, lead cuts (one mounted on a wood block), linoleum cuts (most mounted on wood blocks), two woodcuts, and sketchbooks.

Also present is a folder of correspondence with various government employees and officials concerning his suspension from government work. Correspondents include Senator Harry F. Byrd and Senator Guy M. Gillette, Rogers's lawyer, Byron N. Scott, and Secretary of the Treasury, George Humphrey.

Arrangement

Alphabetical order by category.