Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1926
Description:
B/w photographic postcard of two men (the same as in .0030 and .0031) are seated in rattan chairs looking at the camera. Webb Miller is wearing the dark suit and the man in the light colored suit is possibly the Vice President of the United Press. On the back glued over a handwritten message is a portion of an informative strip reading "Webb Miller (left) on the/during South American tour in/Vice—President of United Press/"
Object ID:
2007—0012.0032
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Miller, Webb
Other #:
P005426
Photographer:
Villalobos, Mar del Plata, Argentina
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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men sitting outside at table
men sitting outside at table