Edith Sara Watson (1861 in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut – 1943 in Florida) was a photographer whose career spanned the 1890s through the 1930s.

Born in 1861 in East Windsor Hill, Connecticut, United States, Edith Watson was the youngest of four children.

She and her sister, Amelia Watson, shared an interest in the art of watercolor painting, and at one point set out to become working artists by building their own studio.

[3] With her camera, Watson documented the lives of people in Newfoundland, Labrador, the Maritimes, Quebec, Ontario, and then westward into Manitoba and British Columbia,[3] while Hayward wrote about them.

She sold her work to governments and advertisers, as well as publications including Chatelaine, Maclean's, the Canadian Magazine, National Geographic, and Ladies’ Home Journal.