Emma Edwards Green

In 1890, Emma Edwards Green stopped in Boise, Idaho, to visit friends on her way home from the Arts Students League of New York.

[5] On May 5, 1891, Edwards was awarded $100 by Governor N. B. Willey for her design of the state seal, which depicts a miner, a woman and various natural resources of Idaho.

[4][5] The original seal painting is now held at the Idaho State Historical Society.

[6] A few years after designing the State Seal of Idaho, Edwards married James G. Green.

Emma Edwards Green died in Boise, Idaho, on January 6, 1942, and was buried with her husband in Oakland, California.

The original state seal of Idaho as designed by Green and adopted in 1891; it was used until 1957.