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Title |
Botanical Drawings - Caroline Foster |
Scope & Content |
Folder of Botanical Drawings Completed by Caroline Rose Foster when she was young. This folder belongs within Series 3: Family Correspondence, notebooks, schoolwork, diaries, and other documents relating to the Foster family and their relatives, ca. 1860 to 1980. This series is broken into 6 subseries: Emma Louise Foster; Charles Grant Foster; Caroline Rose Foster; Genealogy; Siblings, which includes Emma Phelps Foster, Alice Foster, Julia Ward Foster, George B. Foster, Ralph Foster, John Seeley Ward, Harriet Foster Ward, Maude Thompson, Mr. & Mrs. James Phelps Foster, William "Uncle Bill" Thompson, Frederick Rose Foster, Caroline "Aunt Carrie" Thompson, Kate Thompson, and others; and General. |
Object Name |
Drawing |
Catalog Number |
2020.002.0002 |
Collection |
Fosterfields Collection |
Physical characteristics |
handmade drawings on paper |
Creator |
Foster, Caroline |
Biographical History |
Caroline Rose "Cara" Foster (1877-1979) was born in Brooklyn, NY and came to Fosterfields as an infant with her parents while her mother was ill. Emma's sister, Caroline (known as Aunt Carrie) and mother, Phoebe, both lived at the Willows to help raise young Caroline after her mother's death. She attended Miss Dana's School from 1886 to 1896 where she made friends with a number of local socialites. |
Year Range from |
1880 |
Year Range to |
1905 |
Subjects |
Art Drawing Painting Botanical illustrations |
Copyrights |
Records may be copied for use in individual scholarly or personal research; however, as with all materials in the Morris County Park Commission, researchers are responsible for obtaining copyright permission to use material from the collection. |
Level of description |
Folder |