The World Wide Webb Miller
Description:
.0157a: 4.25 x 3" on orange paper, press pass for Webb Miller at Conference du Desarmement
.0157b: 4 x 3.5" Press card for United Press correspondents in London at the Monetary and Economic Conference, League of Nations.
.0157c: 2.8 x 4" 1933 Police Department permission to pass all Police Lines wherever formed. Very worn and bent..
.0157d: 5.4 x 4.25" 1935 journalist pass in possibly Portuguese for Webb Miller, with his photograph at left lower corner
.0157e: 6 x 4.4" 1935, possibly Greek, mounted on stiff black cardboard, photograph of Webb Miller upper left corner.
.0157f: 3.25 x 5", dark red and yellow cardboard, 1936. Photograph of Webb Miller on one side, infomation in Spanish on other side.
.0157g: 6 x 4" invitation from the American Minister, Prague, to Webb Miller for Dinner
Notes:
Webb Miller was born in 1891 in Sumnerville/Pokagon, graduated from Dowagiac High School around 1910, and went on to become a journalist in Chicago. He covered the Pancho Villa insurrection at the Mexican border in 1915 and landed a job at the United Press. He stayed with UP and covered World War I, Gandhi, Ethiopian War, Spanish Civil War, and came to head UP Europe. He died a mysterious death in 1940.
The collection came from the donor's niece, who received the collection from Webb Miller's daughter—in—law Helene MIller.
Object ID:
2007—0012.0157a—g
Object Name:
Card
People:
Miller, Webb
Search Terms:
Webb MIller
Year Range from:
1932
Year Range to:
1936
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