User:Lilibet128/Zella de Milhau

Return to Southampton[edit]
Upon returning to Southampton, she purchased a motorcycle and became its first motorcycle officer, "officer number 6". The New York Tribune reported in July 1920 that the "Society Girl Motor Cop" Milhau had taken the position of motorcycle policewoman, to chase speeding drivers. By September 1920, the Southampton police chief reported that Milhau would stop riding the motorcycle, and move to policing duties as a parole officer and interpreter for foreigners facing the local court.

De Milhau was the subject of the 1936 book Thank God for Laughter by Mel Erskine.

De Milhau continued to be an accomplished printmaker upon her return to Southampton. In October of 1923, The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly recorded that two of De Milhau's drypoint prints, "Sand Dunes, Long Island" and "Lowland" were recent accessions of The Brooklyn Museum.

In 1923 De Milhau submitted a colored mezzotint print to the Seventh Annual Exhibition of the Brooklyn Society of Etchers. Her print "Boats Along Shore" would to cause sea lovers to "long for the tang of its air" according to Ernest G. Draper of The Brooklyn Museum Quarterly.