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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 2 Collections and/or Records:

Culvert Construction, 1919

 Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0001.00002
Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew building a culvert in South Dakota. Nine men pose at a bridge construction site, where a concrete pour is beginning. The forms are fitted with rebar; a concrete mixer with extended trough is at the back, along with a tarped stack of cement bags, a gravel pile and two wheelbarrows. Loose lumber is scattered about the site. After serving in the Army as an engineer during World War I, Morris Adelstein joined his mother in Kadoka, South Dakota and...
Dates: 1919

Culvert Construction, 1919

 Item
Identifier: B207.01.0001.0001.00001
Abstract Mounted photograph showing a construction crew of fifteen men at a worksite in South Dakota where a concrete culvert pour is about to begin. Forms are fitted with rebar, a concrete mixer with extended trough is at the back, along with a tarped stack of supplies, a gravel pile, two wheelbarrows, a shovel and other tools. Two kegs (probably holding nails for form assembly) are at the right front and back, and two men standing at the left of the photo have shovels. After serving in the Army as...
Dates: 1919

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