Jennie Dugat Rust [Photograph]

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Jennie Dugat Rust [Photograph]

Context

Five different poses of Jennie Dugat Rust by John Tackett in Coffeyville, Kansas, who had gained national notoriety in 1892 when he photographed the Dalton Gang raid in Coffeyville. Jennie possibly passed through Coffeyville on her move from her Buffalo, Missouri to San Antonio, Texas in 1897-1898, and a subsequent move to Beeville, Texas to become the city's first female photographer in 1901.

Category

Texas in Focus
Bayou Bend