Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1916
Description:
B/w photograpic postcard of two men on horseback. Identified as General Pancho Villa with Wallace Smith.
Object ID:
2007—0012.0018
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Villa, Pancho
Smith, Wallace
Smith, Wallace
Other #:
P005412
Photographer:
F.C.Hecox, 421 Mesa Ave.
Print Size:
3.5 x 5.5"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
Pancho Villa
Wallace Smith
Pancho Villa
Wallace Smith
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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Pancho Villa and Mr. Smith
Pancho Villa and Mr. Smith