The Miller Photo Lab was established in 1947 by J. (James) Gordon Miller. He was born in Omaha October 21, 1915 and graduated from Omaha South High School. He worked as a darkroom assistant in Whittier, California, and during World War II was trained as an Army photographer in the Signal Corps. The Lab provided aerial, industrial, agricultural, livestock and ranching photographic services to local individuals, business, organizations, and government agencies. He closed Miller Photo Lab in the late 1980s and moved his family to the Corvallis-McMinnville, Oregon area. He enrolled in Oregon State University and earned a degree in Botany. He photographed and cataloged wild flowers, and, before his death on April 28, 2003, he donated his entire flora collection of thousands of colored slides to the Botany Department at Oregon State.
Information provided by J. Gordon Miller's brother, Robert Miller, Omaha, Nebraska.
Deed of Gift to rights to atlas given to Omaha Public Library by J. Gordon Miller's children, Raymond T. Miller, Marion R. Miller, and Suzanne D. Spirup, on October 24, 2005.