Roy M. Marcot Collection of Spencer Repeating Firearms Research
1866 – 1983
The collection is primarily comprised of secondary research materials assembled by the donor in the course of researching and writing his book Spencer Repeating Firearms. It includes magazine and newspaper articles, photographs, manuscripts, booklets, and research notes about Christopher Miner Spencer and the repeating rifle. Several booklets include articles about Spencer and the history of the automatic screw machine. Typescript transcriptions of a small series of letters written by George Washington Rogers to his wife Frances Linnell Taylor Rogers from Valparaiso in 1855 are also part of the collection. Accessions 1979.20, 1985.51, and 1986.34 have been assimilated into one archival collection.
Box 1 Series I. Series I. Spencer Repeating Firearms research notes
1.0 Vol. I. January 1859 -- June 1864
1.1 Vol. II. June 1864 -- January 1884
Box 2 Series II - III - IV Series II. Secondary sources: magazine, newspaper, corporate publications
2.1 A. Spencer rifles
2.2 B. Automatic screw machines
Series III. Spencer family photographs
2.4 Looseleaf notebook with clippings and photographs dated 1866-1979
Series IV. Correspondence, 1855: G.W. Rogers to F.L.T. Rogers
2.5 Typescript transcriptions prepared by Vesta Taylor Spencer of correspondence between her grandparents Capt. George Washington Rogers and Frances Linnell Taylor Rogers, written Jan. 7, 1855-October 28, 1855 from Valparaiso [Chile?] [see Christopher M. Spencer Collection for additional letters]
Box 1 Series I. Series I. Spencer Repeating Firearms research notes
1.0 Vol. I. January 1859 -- June 1864
1.1 Vol. II. June 1864 -- January 1884
Box 2 Series II - III - IV Series II. Secondary sources: magazine, newspaper, corporate publications
2.1 A. Spencer rifles
2.2 B. Automatic screw machines
- Automatic Machining, August 1973
- Early Beginnings of the Screw Machine, [n.d.]
- From Archimedes to Automation, [n.d.]
- Kaiser Aluminum New, October 1954
Series III. Spencer family photographs
2.4 Looseleaf notebook with clippings and photographs dated 1866-1979
Series IV. Correspondence, 1855: G.W. Rogers to F.L.T. Rogers
2.5 Typescript transcriptions prepared by Vesta Taylor Spencer of correspondence between her grandparents Capt. George Washington Rogers and Frances Linnell Taylor Rogers, written Jan. 7, 1855-October 28, 1855 from Valparaiso [Chile?] [see Christopher M. Spencer Collection for additional letters]
1979.020.001