Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
ca. 1930
Description:
B/w photograph on postcard—type paper of two men in a two—seated propeller plane, one seated in first cockpit and one standing behind him. In ink on back: "Webb Miller and H.S. Peters (of Berlin Staff UP) about to take off on air search for missing transatlantic flyer."
Object ID:
2007—0012.0101
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Miller, Webb
Peters H.S.
Peters H.S.
Other #:
P005495
Print Size:
5.5 x 3.5"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
H.S. Peters
H.S. Peters
Notes:
Webb Miller, born in 1891 in Sumnerville/Pokagon, graduate of Dowagiac High School around 1910. Miller went on to become a journalist in Chicago, covered the Pancho Villa insurrection at the Mexican border in 1915 and landed a job at United Press. Stayed with UP and covered World War I, Ghandi, Etheopian War, Spanish Civil War and came to head UP Europe. Died mysterious death in 1940. Collection from donor's niece, who received the collection from Webb Miller's daughter—in—law, Helene Miller.
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