The manuscript materials consist of personal and business correspondence of Nancy Graham Rogers, including letters from her
fiance, Albert C. Johnson. There are also letters Rogers inherited from her mother, Anna, including one from her father to
her grandmother asking for Anna's hand in marriage. There are business receipts, correspondence, tax information, and material
regarding the estates of relatives for whom Rogers served as executor, including Anne Snowden Wildman Dyer and Christine Wildman.
The collection also includes scrapbooks, Nancy's mother's wedding book, and a small diary Rogers kept from 1932 to 1935. An
account book marked "Turkeys and Chickens 1915" was used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, and contains clippings and
expenses. A journal also used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, contains recipes, family expenses for 1914, and clippings.
There are two scrapbooks compiled by Mary Oden Rogers containing clippings and pictures. Some loose material in the scrapbooks
was removed and placed in folders. Separation sheets detailing where these materials were placed were put in the scrapbooks.
The Ferguson family lived in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, but owned Belmont, a farm near Leesburg, Virginia, that they used as
a summer residence. Their daughter, Anna Louise Ferguson (1883-1973) married William Thomas Clagett (W.T.C.) Rogers (1875-1930)
of Leesburg in the chapel at Belmont on 7 June 1910. W.T.C. Rogers had several siblings, including Mary Oden Rogers (1868-1905)
and Christina Rogers Wildman (1873-1943). Mary died before her brother's marriage. She drowned at a sanatorium in New York
where she was being treated for an unspecified illness. Although she never married she was engaged at the time of her death.
Christina married and had two daughters, Anne (called Anna) Snowden Wildman Dyer (1895-1973) and Christine Wildman (1898-1958).
After their marriage, W.T.C. and Anna Rogers lived at Belmont for several years then settled in the town of Leesburg. They
had two children, Nancy Graham Rogers (14 October 1912-27 January 2000) and William Thomas Clagett Rogers, Jr. (1914-1985).
Nancy Graham Rogers graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1934 and taught science for a short time at Aldie High School. She
eventually became a virologist working in medical research for the United States government at Walter Reed Medical Center.
The U.S. War Department awarded her the Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 1946 for her wartime work developing a typhus
vaccine. In addition to her work in virology, Rogers was an award-winning photographer and had an interest in botany, speleology,
and the study of bats. Life Magazine published a photograph of her working with bats in a Virginia cave in their 10 September
1956 issue. Her love of photography and botany produced an extensive slide collection of wildflower photographs from all over
the world. Rogers was a member of the Leesburg Garden Club and left her collection of daffodils to the club. She was also
an active member of St. James Episcopal Church. Although Rogers never married, her diary indicates she had an active social
life in high school and college and was once engaged to a doctor, Albert C. Johnson (fl. 1930s). She kept his letters to her
from 1937 to 1939, though there is no explanation of why they did not marry. Nancy Rogers died 27 January 2000 in Leesburg
and is buried in Union Cemetery in Leesburg.
The manuscript materials consist of personal and business correspondence of Nancy Graham Rogers, including letters from her
fiance, Albert C. Johnson. There are also letters Rogers inherited from her mother, Anna, including one from her father to
her grandmother asking for Anna's hand in marriage. There are business receipts, correspondence, tax information, and material
regarding the estates of relatives for whom Rogers served as executor, including Anne Snowden Wildman Dyer and Christine Wildman.
The collection also includes scrapbooks, Nancy's mother's wedding book, and a small diary Rogers kept from 1932 to 1935. An
account book marked "Turkeys and Chickens 1915" was used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, and contains clippings and
expenses. A journal also used as a scrapbook, probably by Anna Rogers, contains recipes, family expenses for 1914, and clippings.
There are two scrapbooks compiled by Mary Oden Rogers containing clippings and pictures. Some loose material in the scrapbooks
was removed and placed in folders. Separation sheets detailing where these materials were placed were put in the scrapbooks.
The visual materials include family snapshots including photographs documenting trips, family outings, homes, and friends;
a large number of color slides of wildflowers taken by Rogers; and a large photograph album that belonged to Mary Oden Rogers
containing pictures of a summer in Maine.
Folder 1: Christmas and Easter cards (Anna Ferguson Rogers)
Folder 2: Photographs, possibly Ferguson horses
Folder 3: Photographs of Nancy and her brother
Folder 4: From small album (#1): Leesburg High School
Folder 5: From small album (#2): Leesburg High School
Folder 6: Photographs, Nancy at Agnes Scot College,
ca. 1932 - 1935
Folder 7: Photographs (4 are of tennis at Greystone near Waterford, 1930s)
Folder 8: Photographs of Dr. Albert Johnson's colleagues at Ithaca,
ca. 1937
Folder 9: Miscellaneous photographs
Folder 10: Unidentified photographs
Folder 11: Small album of photographs of a picnic,
ca. 1940s
Folder 12: Photographs, all labeled "NR New Guinea,"
1962
Folder 13: Photographs of a bear,
undated
Folder 14: Large photographs of scenery and of horses,
undated
Folder 15: Photographs of Nancy's workplace,
1940s
Folder 16: 4 studio photographs of Nancy Rogers,
undated
Folder 17: Miscellaneous photographs of Nancy,
1940s and 1950s
Folder 18: Illustrations
Folder 19: Postcards of Loudoun County buildings
Folder 20: Location notations of color slides of western trip and trip to Japan (see VC boxes 4 and 5 for the slides themselves)
Folder 21: Photocopies of photographs of Nancy Rogers
Folder 22: Loose visual material from front of Mary Oden Rogers' photograph album (OMB 015)
Folder 23: Loose visual material from throughout Mary Oden Rogers' photograph album (OMB 015)
Folder 24: Loose visual material from back of Mary Oden Rogers' photograph album (OMB 015)
Box: 2
Approximately 480 color slides, unmarked.
Box: 3
Approximately 150 color slides. Trip to the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, demolition of the Leesburg Inn in 1973, ruins of the Broad
Run Bridge at Route 7; the remainder are unmarked.
Box: 4
Approximately 325 color slides. Trip to the western United States. Box 1, folder 20 contains handwritten notations of specific
locations for these slides.
Box: 5
Approximately 480 color slides. Trips to western United States, Japan, and Pebble Beach, California.
Box: 6
Approximately 480 color slides of wildflowers, mostly unlabeled.
Box: 7
Approximately 200 color slides wildflowers, mostly unlabeled.
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