Bill Griffiths of Singing Millmen, Making Miniature Military Equipment

Identifier:

048658

Collection Number:

A&M 3470

Title:

Bill Griffiths of Singing Millmen, Making Miniature Military Equipment

Date:

Undated

Description:

Caption on back of photograph reads: "Bill Griffiths makes military equipment during working hours, relaxes in his spare time by duplicating his day's work in miniature. he built the model guns and tanks shown here, and the train that carries them. On Sundays, he's one of the famed "Singing Millmen"." The Singing Millmen were regulars on the "It's Wheeling Steel" radio broadcast.

Subjects:

Musicians--West Virginia.

Corporate Names:

It's Wheeling Steel (Radio program), Wheeling Steel Corporation.

Acquisition Source:

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Corporation. Stoll, Richard E.

Acquisition Method:

Gift

Medium:

print

Projects:

West Virginia History OnView