Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1936
Description:
B/w photograph of three men (Webb Miller in center) standing. Man on left wearing pith helmet and high boots, has his arm around Webb; man on right has on different clothing and has a cane in his left hand. On typed sheet across the back: "Webb Miller arriving at Los Angeles in February, 1936, greeted by 'Haile Selassie'." Left to right, Wallace Smith; Webb Miller; Max Hoffman, as "Haile Selassie".
Object ID:
2007—0012.0067
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Miller, Webb
Smith, Wallace
Hoffman, Max (Haile Selassie)
Smith, Wallace
Hoffman, Max (Haile Selassie)
Other #:
P005461
Print Size:
8 x 10"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
Wallace Smith
Max Hoffman (Haile Selassie)
Wallace Smith
Max Hoffman (Haile Selassie)
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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three men standing up,
three men standing up,