Rogers arrived in Olympia just as Washington achieved Statehood and his 11x14 glass plate negative, amazingly surviving to this day, is one of only two made on Nov. 11th, 1889 with swearing in of our first governor. You can buy a print of that event that I have restored. He went on to photograph early legislators and provides a vital visual record of the state's capital and its governing bodies during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Unfortunately, like far too many early photographers' work - his negatives and most photographs are no longer.
These are a few in my Collection...
