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Miller Photography Studio

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Biography

Dick Miller owned the Miller Photography Studio in Pierre, South Dakota. He paid off the mortgage on his 1925 home with prize money won with a photograph of his daughter Marilyn in the "America's Most Beautiful Baby" contest sponsored by Sears Roebuck at the Chicago's World Fair in 1934.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Road Construction, 1919

 Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0002.00001
Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a road in South Dakota. There are seven men standing in front of three four-horse hitches pulling grading equipment. On the right of the image are two of the men with surveying equipment. One man is standing behind a level on a tripod and one is holding a rod. Buildings are in the far background. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and was elected as the...
Dates: 1919

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