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The Bill Miller Picture Collection.
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Born in
Hoboken, The New Jersey waterfront city just across the Hudson River from the
once busy docks of New York City, Bill Millers "passion" for ships
began as a youngster. Since then, he has been historian at the Museum of the
American Merchant Marine, chairman of the New York Branch of the World Ship
Society, a board member of the Ocean Liner Museum, contributing editor to the
monthly Ocean & Cruise News and recipient of the National award for
Maritime Scolarship in 1994. He also publishes his own quarterly about passenger
ship industry.
His private
collection on ocean liners consists of over 2,000 books on the subject, 25,000
slides, 10,000 photographs and a prized collection of nearly 500 miniature passenger
ship models, all of them done in 1250th scale. He even has miniature harbour
recreations with thumb nail-size tugboats to fill out the scenes.
As far as I know Bill Miller is not yet
on the Internet, if you would like to contact him by
snail mail or by telephone\fax, get in touch with me on this e-mail
link and I will give you his details.
These photos are used with
kind permission of Bill Miller, and are from his personal collection of
slides showing the Australis.
I am indebted to Bill Miller for the support he has provided in terms of giving permission to use some of his personal photos and information [these are subject to strict copyright].Also he has provided some unique historical perspectives which have been included in the S. S. Australis web site.
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Below is a couple of links to Bill Miller articles that I have found on the web:
Bill Miller is considered an international authority on the subject of ocean liners & cruise ships:
Bill Miller At Sea.
The Australis is shown at Cape Town in September 1972.
Picture
taken from "The Chandris Liners" by William H. Miller.
©The
photos above are from Bill Millers personal collection and are subject to Copyright:
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