Personal author: Rogers, Ernest, 1897-1967.
Title: Papers, 1918-1967.
Physical description: 5 linear ft. (ca. 5,000 pieces).
Index notes: Unpublished finding aid available in repository.
Personal author: Eric, cartoonist.
Personal author: Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916. Happy little cripple.
Personal author: Rogers, Ernest, 1897-1967. Peachtree parade.
Biographical note: Ernest Rogers, author and journalist, was born 27 October 1897, in Atlanta, Georgia, and died on 9
October 1967.
Biographical note: Disabled by polio from age two, he attended Emory University (B.S., 1920), and was the founder and first editor of the EMORY WHEEL. After graduation, he worked at the Atlanta JOURNAL as a copy editor, arts critic, reporter, and finally features writer (1920-1962). He was also a pioneer radio broadcaster with WSB radio (1922-). In addition to musical compositions, he was the author of two books, OLD HOKUM BUCKET (1949), and PEACHTREE PARADE (1965). The latter is a compilation of pieces from the newspaper column by the same name Rogers began in 1943 and continued to write three times weekly after his retirement in 1962.
Abstract: Correspondence, biographical information, writings, scrapbooks, a diary (1918-1919), newspaper columns (1945-1967), photographs, book illustrations, notebooks, sound recordings, minutes, and memorabilia.
Abstract: Correspondence is Rogers's and his father's (Methodist clergyman, Dr. Wallace Rogers). Writings include Rogers's muscial compositions and short stories, the manuscript, galley proofs, and four of the original illustrations by the Atlanta JOURNAL cartoonist Eric for PEACHTREE PARADE; the diary/journal is Rogers's; scrapbooks were compiled by Rogers and by his parents; newpaper columns are Rogers's from the Atlanta JOURNAL; memorabilia includes various awards and certificates; photographs are of Rogers, his birthday celebrations, O.B. Keeler, and Col. James S. Childers; notebooks contain speeches, columns, expense lists, information on WSB Radio and Atlanta personalities; minutes are of the Breakfast Club, an organization of Atlanta businessmen to which Rogers belonged; sound recordings (disc and tape) relate to Rogers's birthday parties, his radio show (1952), a baptismal ceremony performed by his father, Emory University, Bobby Jones, and a James Whitcomb Riley story.
General note: GONE WITH THE WIND Centennial Ball program cataloged in book collection in this department.
Other forms note: Manuscript by Ernest Rogers published as PEACHTREE PARADE (Atlanta: Tupper and Love, 1956).
Preferred citation: Ernest Rogers Papers, Special Collections Department, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
Personal subject: Childers, James Saxon, 1899-.
Personal subject: Frank, Leo, 1884-1915.
Personal subject: Jackson, Graham.
Personal subject: Jones, Bobby, 1902-1971.
Personal subject: Keeler, O.B. (Oscar Bane), 1882-1950.
Personal subject: Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.
Personal subject: Rogers, Mary Brinsfield.
Corporate subject: Emory University--History.
Corporate subject: Emory University--Students.

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Corporate subject: Emory University Glee Club.
Corporate subject: The Breakfast Club.
Corporate subject: WSB (Radio station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Title subject: Atlanta journal.
Subject: American newspapers--Sections, columns, etc.
Subject: Authors, American.
Subject: Birthdays.
Subject: Education--Atlanta (Ga.)
Subject: Journalism--Georgia.
Subject: Journalists--Family relationships.
Subject: Physically handicapped, Writings of the.
Subject: Atlanta (Ga.)--History.
Genre index term: Book illustrations.
Genre index term: Correspondence.
Genre index term: Manuscripts for publications.
Genre index term: Minutes.
Genre index term: Memorabilia.
Genre index term: Newspaper columns.
Genre index term: Photographs.
Genre index term: Scrapbooks.
Genre index term: Sound recordings.
Occupation term: Author.
Occupation term: Clergy.
Occupation term: Journalist.
Occupation term: Radio broadcaster.

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