Dorothy Miller Photographic Collection
Collection
Identifier: GTM-060125
The collection primarily consists of photographs taken by Dorothy Miller in Saudi Arabia while she worked for Aramco from the 1940s to the 1970s. It also includes some other documents related to the company.
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Dorothy Miller arrived in Saudi Arabia in 1947 to work in the law department of the oil company ARAMCO. She became interested in photography after meeting chief ARAMCO photographer Tommy Walters in Dhahran in 1949. Eventually, Miller learned to do her own developing and by 1959 had garnered enough attention for her hobby that she decided to take an intensive six-week professional photography course at the Brooks Institute in San Francisco. Miller returned to ARAMCO in 1967 as treasurer and continued to take photographs ranging from ARAMCO staff and facilities to the people and countryside of Saudi Arabia. Locations depicted include Abquaiq, al-Khobar, Dhahran, Dammam, Hofuf, and Qatif. Miller retired from ARAMCO and returned to the US in 1977. Since then her photographs have been exhibited at Georgetown University Library in 2007 and at the Saudi Aramco Heritage Gallery in Dhahran in 2008.
3 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
English
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository