Actually, this picture is of Karen G. Evans, future widow of Victor Justice Evans.

Zenobia Evans was the sister-in-law of Victor J. She was married to his brother, Arthur L., and died in 1956. Arthur and Zenobia had five children.

Arthur assumed control of his brother’s business per reports regarding lawsuits after Victor’s death. I did not find further mentions of Karen in a brief search.

Is a cockatoo.

Please, someone, colorize this photo!

Victor Justice Evans (1865-1931) was "one of those wonderful self-made men of the last century who put his nose to the grindstone as a young man, made tons of money, and then fulfilled the American dream by happily indulging his many and diverse eccentricities" (Streets of Washington website).

His wife's name was Zenobia [or not: see comment above]; there were no descendants. Upon his death, Victor bequeathed his animals to the National Zoo — excepting those that Zenobia wanted to keep.

Among the other eccentricities, a "quite substantial" collection of Native American artifacts; supporting William Randolph Hearst for President (1908); co-establishing an aeroplane company (1910) at College Park Airport, world's oldest; and putting on his own Independence Day Parade after his plans (including 11 floats depicting Sunday newspaper cartoon characters, Uncle Sam, and performing donkey, elephant, and bull-moose) were rejected by the official parade as "out of harmony with the spirit" of the occasion.