Webb Miller

1936, June

Six b/w snapshots of the Queen Mary arriving in New York harbor on her maiden voyage, surrounded by a horde of smaller ships.
.0072e: large group of people jammed onto the second floor rooftop porch of three—story bulding apparently watching her arrival.

2007—0012.0072a—e

Print, Photographic

Miller, Webb

P005466

3.4 x 2.5"

Webb Miller
Queen Mary maiden voyage

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.