Scope and Contents
The collection contains over two hundred large and oversize watercolor paintings of botany subjects, including wildflowers and fungi. Paintings were numbered and named by Sweetser, including in most cases with the common name and the Latin name.
Dates
- circa 1888-1952
Creator
- Sweetser, Carrie K., 1863-1952 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Carrie K. Sweetser (1863-1952) was a watercolorist, life-long diarist, and devoted travel companion of her botanist husband. 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 to Oregon, where Albert's first teaching post was at Pacific University. He moved to the University of Oregon in 1902, and the couple remained in Eugene until their deaths.
On botanical exploring and collecting trips, the Sweetsers took many photographs, and Carrie painted wildflowers and fungi.
Albert Sweetser died in 1940; Carrie lived for another dozen years, passing away in Eugene, on September 9, 1952, at the age of eighty-nine. The couple had no children, but they were survived by the descendants of George Phinney, Carrie's nephew, whom they raised as their son.
Extent
93 linear feet (31 containers) : 31 oversize flat boxes
Language of Materials
English
Latin
Abstract
Carrie K. Sweetser (1863-1952) was a watercolorist, life-long diarist, and devoted travel companion of her botanist husband, UO Botany professor, Albert Raddin Sweetser. The collection contains watercolor paintings of botany subjects, including wildflowers and fungi.
- Botanical artists -- Oregon. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Botanical artists -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Botanical illustrations Subject Source: TGM II, Genre and physical characteristic terms
- Botany -- Northwest, Pacific Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Watercolor painting, American Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Watercolor painting, American -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Watercolorists -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Watercolorists -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Watercolors Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Women painters -- Oregon Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Women painters -- United States Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Guide to the Carrie Sweetser Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Tanya Parlet.
- Date
- 2012
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for production of this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
