Carrie K. Sweetser paintings approximately 1888-1952

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Carrie K. Sweetser paintings approximately 1888-1952

Carrie K. Sweetser (1863-1952) was a watercolorist, a life-long diarist, and her botanist husband's (UO Botany professor, Albert Raddin Sweetser) devoted travel companion. The collection contains watercolor paintings of botany subjects, including wildflowers and fungi.

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Sweetser, Carrie K., 1863-1952

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Carrie K. Sweetser (1863-1952) was a watercolorist, a life-long diarist, and her botanist husband's devoted travel companion. She was married for fifty-two years to Albert Raddin Sweetser (1861-1940), professor of botany and founder of the University of Oregon Herbarium in Eugene. Carolyn Knowles Phinney was born in Centerville, Massachusetts, on September 11, 1863. She married Albert Sweetser in Centerville on February 29, 1888. In 1897, the Sweetsers came t...