Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1936
Description:
B/w photograph of four men in suits and wearing hats, two of whom are writing on sheets of paper. Typed sheet attached: "Webb Miller, United Press correspondent who made the Atlantic crossing on the dirigible Hindenburg, is shown at Lakehurst, N.J., early May 9th, being interviewed by reporters shortly after the giant ship ended her epochal 61—hour flight from Frankfurt, Germany."
Object ID:
2007—0012.0071
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Miller, Webb
Other #:
P005465
Print Size:
9 x 7"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
Hindenburg
Hindenburg
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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two men writing on paper
two men writing on paper