Paul Patrick Rogers Photographs
Scope and Contents Note
Ninety black-and-white photographic prints, organized into three series: I. Mexico. II. Venezuela. III. Ignacio Millan photographs, and arranged numerically. Fifty photographs, mostly taken by Rogers and "I. Casasola Foto," depict Mexican church facades, railroad stations, buildings at the University of Mexico and elsewhere in Mexico City, Indian dancers, Guanajuato street scenes and buildings, and assorted views of Mexican scenes and people. Among the Mexican photographs are two of the Franciscan Mission at Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Nine photographs of Venezuelan locales include views of Creole Petroleum Corporation operations, sites in Caracas, and Lake Maracaibo. Thirty-one photographs by Ignacio Millán are late-Pictorialist still-lifes and portraits of famous people and other personalities.
Dates
- Creation: c.1945-1955
Language of Materials
English
Access Restrictions
Unrestricted.
Use Restrictions
Standard copyright restrictions apply.
Biographical Sketch
Professor of Spanish. Born 1900 in Snohomish, Washington; died 1989 in Austin, Texas. Educated at the University of Mississippi, Acadia University, and Cornell University (Ph.D. 1928). Named Knight of the Order of Isabella in 1927. Professor of Spanish language and literature at Oberlin College, Ohio 1929-1966; department chair 1946-1962. Publications include Spanish drama collection in the Oberlin College Library (1940) and Diccionario de seudonimos literarios espanoles (1977) as well as many textbooks on Spanish grammar and literature. Rogers resided in Austin from 1970 to 1989, where he contributed to the collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and was a member of the Chancellor's Council of the University of Texas System.
Full Extent
90 photographic prints
Abstract
59 black-and-white photographs of Mexico and Venezuela by Paul Patrick Rogers and I. Casasola. Also includes 31 photographs by Ignacio Millán.
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- Title
- Paul Patrick Rogers Photographs
- Status
- Edited Partial Draft
- Author
- Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection
- Date
- 2006
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Revision Statements
- 2021 May: Edited by D Ryan Lynch to fix compliance check errors to prepare for the migration to new TARO website.
- 2021 November: Edited by Devon Murphy to update control access terms and formatting based on the TARO Control Access List.
- 2025 July: Revised by Ryan Sullivant to fix validation errors prior to ingestion into ArchivesSpace.
Repository Details
Part of the Benson Latin American Collection, The University of Texas at Austin Repository
2300 Red River Street
Austin Texas 78712 United States
(512) 495-4578
bensonspecialcollections@austin.utexas.edu