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Kenneth Rogers photograph collection
Black-and-white photographs of Atlanta, Georgia dating between 1800 and 2006 that were collected or taken by photojournalist Kenneth Rogers.
More About This Collection
Creator
Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
Date of Original
1800/2006
Subject
Frank, Leo, 1884-1915
Southeastern Fair (Atlanta, Ga.)
Ponce de Leon Park (Atlanta, Ga.)
Grant Field (Atlanta, Ga.)
Fort Benning (Columbus, Ga.)
Sanford Stadium (Athens, Ga.)
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.)
Fires--Georgia--Atlanta
Floods--Georgia
Parades--Georgia--Atlanta
World War, 1939-1945--Georgia
Location
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
United States, Georgia, Decatur County, Chattahoochee River, 30.7088028, -84.8638097
United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, 33.77153, -84.22641
United States, Georgia, DeKalb County, Decatur, 33.77483, -84.29631
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Decatur Street
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, Peachtree Street, 33.798452, -84.3910732
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Five Points, 33.75427, -84.38965
United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104
Medium
black-and-white photographs
photographs
Type
Still Image
Description
This series contains material collected by Kenneth Rogers. Rogers collected over 1,000 negatives by staff photographers at the Atlanta Constitution. Rogers also collected prints of Atlanta taken in the 19th century. The photographs are arranged in 5 subseries; A) Personalities B) Groups C) Events D) Activities and E) Geographic Locations, which is further subdivided in categories: 1. Atlanta 2. Georgia 3. Scenery. Images of sports and political icons such as Ellis Arnall, Wallace Butts, Jimmy Carter, Bobby Dodd, Walter George, Barry Goldwater, Joel Chandler Harris, Bobby Jones, E.D. Rivers, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, and Eugene and Herman Talmadge. Photographs of the Atlanta Police Department and the Atlanta Fire Department in the early 1900's, the Atlanta Crackers baseball team, Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Ku Klux Klan. Images of important civic and political events in Georgia such as Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1932 campaign visit to Atlanta, the Three Governors Controversy involving Herman Talmadge, Ellis Arnall, and James V. Carmichael in 1946, the Winecoff Hotel fire, University of Georgia football games, the Masters Golf Tournament, the premiere of Gone With the Wind, World War II parades, political conventions, and strikes. Images of harvesting cotton, peaches, and tobacco also logging, syrup making, and religious services. Geographic locations include the Atlanta Municipal Airport, the Bell Bomber Plant, Camp Gordon, City Hall, Kimble House, and Ponce De Leon Park. There are many street scenes in the Five Points, Buckhead, Inman Park, and Little Five Points neighborhoods and aerial views and scenic photographs of Georgia's cities., Kenneth Rogers was born on February 26, 1907 in Camack, Georgia. His family moved to Atlanta in 1915 where Kenneth attended Tech High School. In 1923, Rogers began a 49-year career with the Atlanta Constitution as an office assistant. He dropped out of school during his senior year in order to go to work at the paper full time. Rogers was named as head of the Photography Department at the Constitution in 1930 and retained that position until 1952. When the Atlanta Constitution and the Atlanta Journal were merged in 1952, he became the Director of Magazine Photography and remained in this position until his retirement in 1972. An exceptional photographer, Rogers covered important news events in Atlanta and Georgia, and captured scenes from the Georgia countryside. Despite several changes in photographic technology, Rogers used large format (4x5) cameras his entire career. As a measure of his reputation, he was invited to the Eastman/Kodak labs in Rochester, New York to be one of the first group of photographers to experiment and train in the use of Ektachrome Color Film. Many of his photographs were used in calendars which were printed throughout the country. For many years he was the exclusive photographer for Rich's Inc. Mr. Rogers died September 11, 1989, after battling lung cancer several years.
Original Collection
Kenneth Rogers photograph collection, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center.
Holding Institution
Atlanta History Center
Rights