Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1924
Description:
B/w photographic Spanish postcard, head and torso photographic shot of moustached man in uniform, medals on his left chest, riding crop under his left arm. Inscribed to W. Miller .....
Object ID:
2007—0012.0027
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
Other #:
P005421
Print Size:
3.5 x 5.5"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
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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man in urniform
man in urniform