Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
cas. 1936
Description:
.0068a: B/w photograph of five smiling men standing in a row. Wallace Smith on left, greeting Webb Miller (2nd on left) in Hollywood.
.0068b: same photograph
.0068b: same photograph
Object ID:
2007—0012.0068a,b
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Miller, Webb
Smith, Wallace
Hoffman, Max (Haile Selassie)
Smith, Wallace
Hoffman, Max (Haile Selassie)
Other #:
P005462a,b
Print Size:
10 x 8"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
Wallace Smith
Haile Selassie (Max Hoffman)
Wallace Smith
Haile Selassie (Max Hoffman)
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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four men surronding one women
four men surronding one women