Celebrities

Rosalynn Carter, standing in the White House in 1977. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, reproduction # LC-USZCN4-117.

Rosalynn Carter (1927-2023)

Rosalynn Carter is the wife of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and she has served the public since her husband was first elected to the Georgia State Senate in 1962. Mrs. Carter continues to work for social issues as cofounder and board of trustees member of the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.

Note: this text was written in 2011. Rosalynn Carter passed away on November 19, 2023.

From the collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing.

Carter often accompanied her husband on fly-fishing trips.

A publicity still for Rogers’s 1947 film, It Had to Be You.

Ginger Rogers

Born Virginia Katherine McMath, Ginger Rogers began her career in vaudeville and on Broadway, and she made her first Hollywood film in 1929. Rogers is probably best remembered as Fred Astaire’s talented dance partner in numerous films.

From the collection of the American Museum of Fly Fishing.

Rogers was featured on the 2 March 1942 cover of Life magazine wearing her angling gear and holding a fly rod.