Arrangement: The collection is arranged as follows: business correspondence, carnival material, Irish material, business and family correspondence, business and personal correspondence, Myra Clare Rogers academic papers and correspondence, family memorabilia, coins and banknotes, photographs, James Rogers papers, account books, ledgers, cash books, journals, invoices, check stubs, shipment records, grain and hay delivery records, flour sales, expense book, letter books, telegrams, family Bible, family photograph albums, James Rogers scrapbooks, other family scrapbooks, lawyers desk books, photographs, certificates, and theater programs and playbills. The collection is consists of 19 boxes, 61 volumes and 20 oversize folders.

Date Acquired: 00/00/1959

Subjects: Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History., Commodity exchanges., Irish Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History., Rogers, James Mitchell., Rogers, Myra Clare., Rogers family -- Genealogy., Rogers family.

Forms of Material: Correspondence., Financial records., Photographs., Programs (documents)., Scrapbooks.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The collection includes the papers of New Orleans commodity broker James Mitchell Rogers, as well as his family of four sisters, including Myra Clare Rogers, a Newcomb College professor of Latin. There is business correspondence, invoices, cash books, journals, letter books, ledgers, shipment records, grain and hay delivery records, receipt books, account books (chiefly 1908-1911 relating to the running of the commodities office). The collection also include later business records (1920-1957); personal correspondence; City Stores correspondence; carnival invitations; carnival ball instructions; early family records of Michael Rogers in New Orleans (1830-1850s); school certificates; academic papers by Myra Clare Rogers, including her dissertation; and playbills from New Orleans theatres, including the Academy of Music, Varieties Theatre, St. Charles Theatre, and Crescent Theatre. Also included are an 1830s ship record, a box of family photographs, photograph albums, a postcard album, a family Bible, scrapbooks, United States coins, and other memorabilia.

Biographical Note

James Mitchell Rogers (1877-1959), son of Michael A. Rogers, traced his genealogy to Thomas Rogers, who came to America on the Mayflower, but his forebears were born in Kilala, County of Mayo, Ireland. The family's time in New Orleans lasted from the coming of the great grandfather Patrick Rogers, who was buried in St. Patrick's Cemetery in 1839 to James Mitchell Rogers who died in July 1959.

James Mitchell Rogers was a New Orleans commodity broker and his father was Michael Rogers. He had four sisters: Ida, Alice, Myra Clare, and Naomi. Myra Clare Rogers was a Newcomb College Professor of Latin. As a broker, James Mitchell Rogers dealt mainly in grains, hay, and flour. The Rogers family attended many balls and social events of the carnival krewes, including Rex, Comus, Consus, Falstaffians, Harlequins, Mithras, Mystic Club, and Momus.

Subject/Index Terms

Carnival -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Commodity exchanges.
Irish Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History.
Rogers, James Mitchell.
Rogers, Myra Clare.
Rogers family -- Genealogy.
Rogers family.

Administrative Information

Repository: Louisiana Research Collection

Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public. No known restrictions.

Use Restrictions: Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Research Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

Acquisition Method: Gift.

Preferred Citation: Rogers family papers, Manuscripts Collection 724, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.

Processing Information: Collection processed in 1986.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid information entered in Archon by LAC Group in 2011.

Other Note: OCLC Number: 767901283

Box and Folder Listing

Volume 11: Journal, 1899-1903

Tulane University Special Collections