Collection	Rogers Family
Description	Albumen print mounted on white card stock of Content E. Blake Rodgers. MARKS: Back: "CARTE DE VISITE/BY/ELIAS A. BONINE./Altoona, PA. [A cancelled Proprietary Stamp is on the back, 1864-66]
Notes	Three-quarter view of Content E. Blake Rodgers, wife of George Rogers, she is posed sitting in a chair, her hair is parted in the middle and pulled back tight, she wears a dark colored dress with a small white collar. Content E. Blake was born February 15, 1831in Green County, PA. . On February 9, 1848 she married George Rogers in Crawford County Ohio. The couple had six children: Clara E.; Olive J.; Orville J.; Hallie L. Alva B.; George B. M.. In 1853 the family moved to Winnebago County, Oshkosh Township where George owned a 400 acre farm north of the present site of Riverside Cemetery along Lake Butte des Morts. In 1864 he moved into the City of Oshkosh.
Object ID	P2000.30.4
Object Name	carte de visite
People	Rogers, Content E. Blake
Place	Altoona, PA
Print size	H=4 W=2 1/2 in
Subjects	Portrait photographs Female Pioneers Farmers Rural women
Title	Content E. Blake Rodgers
Year Range from	1864
Year range to	1866

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