Charles B. Bolles-Rogers and Family Guest Book

Résumé du livre

A guest book or party register used by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bolles-Rogers, containing 146 signed pages. The Rogers apparently used it not only when entertaining in their own home, but brought it to other social events and on their travels. Among the hundreds of signatures, some appear dozens of times, including many of the leading families of Twin Cities society of the time, including the Pillsburys, the Weyerhausers, the Heffelfingers, the Kelloggs, and the Wells. The book also contains signatures of such well-known figures as Sinclair Lewis, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, and Archduke Felix of Austria.