Webb Miller

1926

B/w glossy photographs of people on two floors aboard a ship watching another person being dunked in the pool.
.0022a: in ink on back: "Crossing Equator, Feb. 2. Me in door way with towel around shoulders awaiting my turn. P.S. The Dutch girl beside me is from the second class passengers & only happens to be there!
.0022b: On back in ink: "Crossing Equator. Me getting my dose of soap & paste before being tipped over backward."
.0022c: Seven men in ship's pool while two floors of passengers watch. In ink on back: "Crossing the Equator, Feb. 2, 1926. Me in corner of tank after initiation."

2007—0012.0028a—c

Print, Photographic

Miller, Webb

P005422a—c

4 x 6"

Webb Miller

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.