Richard C. Miller photographs
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Scope and Contents
Richard C. Miller (1912-2010) is known for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and other Hollywood celebrities. Miller also documented the construction of the Los Angeles freeways from the 1930s through the 1950s. The Richard C. Miller photographs at USC document a variety of topics, including the construction of Los Angeles freeways, buildings in various parts of Los Angeles, portraits of both well-known and unidentified people, street scenes, self portraits and Miller family portraits, and coastal landscapes. Photographs in the collection include both prints and negatives and range in dates between approximately 1930 through 1953. The collection also includes a set of 16 x 20 inch prints of some of Miller's Los Angeles freeway photographs, printed and signed in 2009.
Dates
- Creation: 1930 - 1953
- Creation: 2009
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Conditions Governing Use
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Collections at specol@usc.edu. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Rights Statement for Archival Description
Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
Extent
3.96 Linear Feet (4 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Richard C. Miller (1912-2010) is known for his photographs of Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, and other Hollywood celebrities. Miller also documented the construction of the Los Angeles freeways from the 1930s through the 1950s. The Richard C. Miller photographs at USC document a variety of topics, including the construction of Los Angeles freeways, buildings in various parts of Los Angeles, portraits of both well-known and unidentified people, street scenes, self portraits and Miller family portraits, and coastal landscapes. Photographs in the collection include both prints and negatives and range in dates between approximately 1930 through 1953. The collection also includes a set of 16 x 20 inch prints of some of Miller's Los Angeles freeway photographs, printed and signed in 2009.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased from Craig Krull Gallery, November 4, 2021.
Processing Information
Craig Krull Gallery, the collection's previous custodian, provided a spreadsheet inventory listing all of the photographic prints in the collection. The item-level description in this finding aid was taken from the Craig Krull Gallery inventory. However, the inventory did not include physical storage information, such as box or folder numbers. Thus, the order of the item-level records in this finding aid does not reflect the physical arrangement of the photographs as they are currently stored.
- Title
- Finding aid for the Richard C. Miller photographs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Bo Doub
- Date
- 2021 November
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the USC Libraries Special Collections Repository
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles California 90089-0189 United States
specol@usc.edu