Mr. Miller^[1]

• Name	Miller
  Title	Mr.
  Gender	Male
  Business Address/Year	Nov 1874-?	Victoria, BC
  	Address: Government St. (W. side near View St.) Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery Victoria, BC Canada
  Where Active (Non-Specific Address)	1874	San Francisco, CA
  Association	Spencer, Stephen Allen (Relationship: Employee)
  Association	Victoria Theatre Photographic Gallery (Relationship: Employee)
  Person ID	I485	Camera Workers | M, vol. 1, 1858-1900
  Last Modified	16 Oct 2021

  
  

• Documents		S.A. Spencer news, Daily Colonist, 7 Nov 1874, p. 3. Noting his return from San Francisco "with improved appliances for taking and finishing pictures," along with Mr. Miller, a retoucher from an unnamed San Francisco studio.
  		S.A. Spencer's ad, Daily Colonist, 5 Nov 1874, p. 1. This ad first appeared in mid-October to advise his customers that his studio would be closed while he was away in San Francisco in search of a retoucher. He returned with a Mr. Miller.

  
  

• Notes

  STATUS: Retoucher. BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY: Described as "an experienced retoucher from the first San Francisco galleries," he worked for S.A. Spencer in the Theatre Photographic Gallery. He replaced R.A. Desmond who had gone to work for Noah Shakespeare. He may be the Hiram Miller identified by Mautz (1997) as working for Bradley and Rulofson in 1871, and later active in Woodland, CA, in 1883.

  
  

• Sources

  [S628] (Victoria) Colonist, (Victoria: Colonist), 7 Nov 1874, 3.