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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	N2003- 13
	Creator:	Dixon, Cassandra Sweeting, 1884-1948.
	Title, Dates:	Sweeting family portraits, ca. 1888-1900.
	Amount:	26 photographs
	Medium Included:	Glass negatives 3''X5''
	Organization/Arrangement:	Unarranged.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Cassandra Sweeting Dixon lived in Tallahassee, Florida, from the late 1880s until 1948. Her parents were Henry Newton Sweeting and Alice Isabel Bourchier Sweeting. Henry Sweeting was a prominent Mason in Florida and a jeweler who ran his own store on South Monroe Street in Tallahassee. Cassandra was born in Pinner, London, England with a heart condition that caused her parents to leave England for the U.S. when she was three years old. The family first settled in West Florida near her Uncle William Sweeting. Her father opened a jewelry store in Milton. By 1888, they had moved to Tallahassee. The Sweetings lived for a while at the corner of Call and Adams streets, then on the 100 block of South Calhoun directly behind the Knott House. The Sweeting family struck up a friendship with area photographer Alvin Harper. Cassandra owned a camera and had an interest in photography, and a photo that she took is in the preface of "The Photographs of Alvin Harper" (1983) that shows him taking a picture of a horse and dogs with a hunting wagon. Cassandra married Warren Coleman Dixon of Madison County and they owned a moving company called Dixon Transfer. She died in 1948 after a lengthy battle with cancer.
	Summary:	This collection contains glass negatives taken by Alvin Harper of the Sweeting family of Tallahassee, Florida. The images are portraits that depict members of the Sweeting family in masonic attire and costumes worn during plays and operettas.
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	Additional Physical Form:	Select images have been digitized and are available on the Florida Memory web site: https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
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	Electronic Records Access:	https://www.floridamemory.com/discover/photographs/
	Subject Access Fields:	Dixon, Cassandra Sweeting, 1884-1948. Harper, Alvan S., 1847-1911 Clothing and dress. Family Florida Glass negatives. Tallahassee (Fla.)
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