Dulah Marie Evans
Dulah Marie Evans, later Dulah Marie Evans Krehbiel (17 February 1875 – 24 July 1951) was an American painter, photographer, printmaker, illustrator, and etcher. Evans received commissions from the Armour Food Company and Santa Fe Railroad to Santa Fe, New Mexico, to photograph Native American subjects in their daily routine and performing ritualistic dances. Early life On February 17, 1875, Dulah Marie Llan Evans was born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. Her parents were builder and architect David Evans (1825 – 1897) and Marie Ogg Evans (1845 – 1897). Her father was born in Wales, and her mother immigrated to the United States from Switzerland. She had an older brother and sister, and a younger brother as well. Her sister was Mayetta Evans, a playwright and art dealer in Chicago.''Dulah Evans Krehbiel.''
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Oskaloosa, Iowa
Oskaloosa is a city in, and the county seat of, Mahaska County, Iowa, United States. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Oskaloosa was a national center of bituminous coal mining. The population was 11,558 in the 2020 U.S. Census, an increase from 10,938 in 2000. History Oskaloosa derives its name from Ouscaloosa who, according to town lore, was a Creek princess who married Seminole chief Osceola. A local tradition was that her name meant "last of the beautiful." (This interpretation of "last of the beautiful" is not correct. "Oskaloosa" in the Mvskoke-Creek language means "black rain," from the Mvskoke words "oske" (rain) and "lvste" (black). "loosa" is an English corruption of the Mvskoke word "lvste". See for example the Wikipedia entry for Tuskaloosa, eponym of the town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In addition the Mvskoke word "Ouscaloosa" means "Black Water"). The first European-American settlers arrived in 1835, led by Nathan Boone, youngest son of fronti ...
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