The World Wide Webb Miller
Collection:
Webb Miller
Date:
1936
Description:
.0078a is mounted b/w studio photograph of the head of a bearded and moustached man.
.0078b is a b/w mounted studio photograph of the same man mounted on gray cardboard 6.5 x 4,25", holding a rifle and with writing on the picture: "My picture taken in the Detention camp during the 1936 Riots..."
Object ID:
2007—0012.0078a—b
Object Name:
Print, Photographic
People:
Hassans Da————
Other #:
P005472a—b
Print Size:
3.5 x 5.5"
Search Terms:
Webb Miller
Hassans Da———
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 with rifleman with rifle
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