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Last Name Dormon

Given Name Caroline Coroneos °

alt. Names C. C. D. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1888 in Arcadia, Lousiana, USA

Year died 1971

Place of death Shreveport, Louisiana, USA

Father's occupation James L. Dormon and the former Caroline Trotti, both from modest circumstances at Briarwood, the family home in northern Natchitoches Parish,

Relatives

Education B.L., Judson College ; certificate in art

Country of Activity United States of America

Worked for C. C. D.: Flowers native to the Deep South (Harrisburg 1958) ; Wild Flowers of Louisiana incl. most herbaceous wild flowers of Gulf states, with the exception of mountainous regions, and the sub-tropical portions of Florida & Texas New York 1934) ; Forest trees of Louisiana & how to know them ;

Patronage Since 1921, public relations representative for the Louisiana Forestry Dept.; in 1941 beautification consultant for Governor Sam Houston & Louisiana

Collaborators

Techniques botanical watercolour

Sample(s) http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/kay14/media/b96491dd-1ea9-4c12-a2b3-0d1a336adb41_zpstuplt2jv.jpg.html

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Dormon ; http://fmhibd.library.cmu.edu/HIBD-DB/ArtCat/recordlist.php?-skip=2350&-max=25 ;

Published sources Lawrence 1964: 25 ; A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography 1 (1988): 251 ; Donald Rawson: Caroline Dormon: A Renaissance Spirit of 20th c. Louisiana, Louisiana History XXIV (1983) ;

other Botanist, horticulturist, ornithologist, historian, archeologist, preservationist, naturalist, conservationist, and author from Louisiana.

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