About Rosetta Ernestine Carr
Lived 1845 – 1907 (aged 61–62). Rosetta Ernestine Carr was a Canadian photographer.
Rosetta Ernestine Carr (1845 – July 6, 1907) was a Canadian photographer and businessperson.
The daughter of Henry Watson, a farmer, and Rosetta Goodall, she was born Rosetta Ernestine Watson in Drummond township, Canada West and studied photography in New York City, in New Haven, Connecticut and in William Notman's Ottawa studio. Carr moved to Winnipeg in 1883 and bought George Searl's photographic business in the following year. She named her company the American Art Gallery. She was admired for the quality of her work, especially her portraits. Carr also photographed the landscape between Port Arthur and the Rocky Mountains. Carr sold her business in 1899, later moving to Ottawa.
Carr died in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1907.
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