Finding aid for the Richard C. Miller photographs 7125
Bo Doub
USC Libraries Special Collections
2021 November
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0189
specol@usc.edu
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Title: Richard C. Miller photographs
Creator:
Miller, Richard C. (Richard Crump), 1912-2010
Identifier/Call Number: 7125
Physical Description:
3.96 Linear Feet
4 boxes
Date (inclusive): 1930-1953
Date: 2009
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.
Language of Material:
English
.
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.
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Rights Statement for Archival Description
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Preferred Citation
[Box/folder no. or item name], Richard C. Miller photographs, Collection no. 7125, Regional History Collection, Special Collections,
USC Libraries, University of Southern California
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Express highways -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Los Angeles (Calif.) -- History -- Photographs
Photographers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Negatives (photographic)
Photographs
Miller, Richard C. (Richard Crump), 1912-2010 -- Archives
Box 1, Folder 1-3, Box 2
Matted prints
1935-1952, undated
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 under this record 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
description under this record does not reflect the physical order of the photographs as they are currently stored. However,
all mounted photographs in this collection are either stored in Box 1, Folders 1-3 or in Box 2 (unfoldered).
"Driving LA 2" (Hotel Padre)
1949
Physical Description: 4.5 x 7
General
gelatin silver print
6th Street Bridge
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Bridge (head on view from center lane)
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Bridge (view from inside tunnel)
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
California '35 (Radiator and license plate)
circa 1935
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Car Showroom at Night
1952
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Castle Rock, Santa Monica, from above
1937
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Country Road
1935
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Diner Windows
circa 1940
Physical Description: 4 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Downtown Los Angeles Famous Department Store
1937
Physical Description: 5 x 6.5
General
gelatin silver print
Driving Home
1943
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
East on Wilshire
1936
Physical Description: 3.75 x 4.75
General
gelatin silver print
Filmarte Theater Hollywood
1938
Physical Description: 3 x 4.25
General
gelatin silver print
Good Humor Ice Cream Truck
1942
Physical Description: 3 x 4.5
General
gelatin silver print
Hollywood Bowl
General
gelatin silver print
Howdy Lathrop, 8th Street
circa 1930s
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Intersection from Above
1937
Physical Description: 2 x 3
General
gelatin silver print
La Brea
1943
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Malibu beach scene
General
gelatin silver print
May Co Parking Garage
1937
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Mid-Wilshire, Westlake
General
gelatin silver print
Miller Beer, Taft Building
1951
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Ocean Park Pier
1935
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Peter Gowland
General
gelatin silver print
Road to Santa Paula
1935
Physical Description: 3 x 4.5
General
gelatin silver print
Seventh and Hill Street (Warner Bros Downtown)
1936
Physical Description: 8 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Warner Fountain Grill Hollywood
1946
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
West on 8th Street from Western Ave
General
gelatin silver print
West on Wilshire
1937
Physical Description: 2 x 3
General
gelatin silver print
West on Wilshire From Bus
1937
Physical Description: 3 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Wiltern Theater
General
gelatin silver print
Construction of the Hollywood Freeway
circa 1948
Physical Description: 4 x 4.75
General
gelatin silver print
Construction of the Hollywood Freeway (Palm trees)
1948
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Construction of the Hollywood Freeway (Rebar)
1948
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Construction of the Hollywood Freeway (trucks)
1948
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
East at Hillhurst
1950
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
East at N. Lake Street / West at N. Lake Street
1948
Physical Description: 8 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
East at occidental / East at McLake Street
Physical Description: 8.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
West at Hillhurst / West Towards Silver Lake
1948
Physical Description: 4.2 x 3.3
General
gelatin silver print
West at Occidental / West at Silver Lake
1948
Physical Description: 8 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
West towards Figueroa / East from Belmonte Street
1948
Physical Description: 8 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Mounted prints
1935-1952, undated
Box 2, Folder 1
Santa Monica Beach
Physical Description: 4.75 x 6.75
General
gelatin silver print
Box 2, Folder 1
Cahuenga Pass Tunnel
1952
Physical Description: 11 x 14
General
gelatin silver print
Box 2, Folder 2
Freeway Overpass
1949
Physical Description: 11 x 14
General
gelatin silver print
Box 2, Folder 2
Freeway overpass with house
1949
Physical Description: 11 x 14
General
gelatin silver print
Box 2, Folder 3
Freeway Intersection - design (Level 8)
1949
Physical Description: 14 x 11
General
gelatin silver print
Box 3, Folder 1
Five O'Clock Shadows
1935
Physical Description: 8 x 9.5
General
bromide print
Box 1, Folder 4-11
Prints (unmounted and unmatted)
1930-1953, undated
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 under this record 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
description under this record does not reflect the physical order of the photographs as they are currently stored. However,
all unmounted and unmatted photographic prints in this collection are stored in Box 1, Folders 4-11.
"Dick with Ronny's Vortlander"
Physical Description: 2.5 x 2
General
gelatin silver print
"Judge Marchetti Office no. 13" buildings downtown
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Looking out the dining room window in house in Hollywoodland"
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Oceano" (dunes)
Physical Description: 5 x 7
General
gelatin silver print
"Pacific Grove" coastline
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
"PCH at Castle Rock"
Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.75
General
gelatin silver print
"Peter Gowland and Ingeborg Zerbe" (nude ballerina)
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
"Riverside at Whitsett"
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Schafter Turnoff ahead"
Physical Description: 5 x 7.5
General
gelatin silver print
"Wilshire Boulevard" at sunset
Abstract (metal plating)
Physical Description: 3.5 x 4.5
General
gelatin silver print
At the Ambassador Hotel (girls in bikinis in line)
Physical Description: 3.5 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Bridge
Physical Description: 4.75 x 3.25
General
gelatin silver print
Cahuenga Pass looking south
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Cahunga Pass, 8/2/1951
1951
Physical Description: 8 x 10.25
General
gelatin silver print
Cars on on/off ramps
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Central Park
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Children on halloween
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Deadman's point (Apple Valley?)
1942
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Dudsie (profile)
Physical Description: 5 x 3.25
General
gelatin silver print
Gas Station at 8th Street (two men drinking)
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Highway construction ("Another Freeway For Your Safety!")
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Nude ("This is very unusual - not the work I usually did. Side lighting from both sides…")
Physical Description: 8 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Nude model, sculpture studio
Physical Description: 8 x 8
General
gelatin silver print
Parade
1935
Physical Description: 4.75 x 3.25
General
gelatin silver print
Pasadena Bridge with cars
1937
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Railroad tracks
Physical Description: 5 x 3
General
gelatin silver print
Road out of Chicago (Soldier Field in background)
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Self-portrait at dining table
Physical Description: 4.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Self-portrait in window of a furrier, 10/27/40
Physical Description: 5 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Soap tray in shower
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Stag Party, Hollywood
1937
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Studio Desk with books, bulbs, scientific equipment, and pelvis bone
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Tail Pins at North American Aviation
Physical Description: 10 x 8
General
gelatin silver print
Two students dining, UCLA
1935
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
UCLA From Sunset Boulevard
1937
Physical Description: 3 x 4.75
General
gelatin silver print
Wiltern Theater
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Chicago Workers"
1936
Physical Description: 2.25 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
"John Carradine"
1935
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"PCH at Castle Rock"
1937
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Westlake Park"
1937
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Cahuenga Pass
Physical Description: 4.25 x 3.5
General
cibachrome
Doheney Library, USC
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Downtown Los Angeles
1937
Physical Description: 5 x 3/25
General
gelatin silver print
Edward Steichen
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Filmarte Theater
1938
Physical Description: 2.25 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
Furniture storefront sale
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Going North (Oxnard)
1949
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Hillside Construction
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
LA Street Scene
1937
Physical Description: 2.75 x 4.5
General
gelatin silver print
LA Street Scene (West Adams?)
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Lansing Brown studio Window ("Paul Hesse's studio")
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Main Street, Downtown LA
1937
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Man in car with crowd
1936
Physical Description: 4 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
Solarized portrait of a woman
Physical Description: 4 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
Solarized portrait of Peter Gowland
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Solarized portrait of Peter Gowland
General
gelatin silver print
UCLA
1937
Physical Description: 3.5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
UCLA
1937
Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
"Alabama Hills"
Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.5
General
cibachrome
"Art Antre Fieldtrip 5-41" "Labelle, me, George Weld v. Cookie"
1941-05
Physical Description: 5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Art Antre Fieldtrip 5-41" Kazuma Nagai
1941-05
Physical Description: 5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Art Antre Fieldtrip 5-41" Nagai and RC Miller
1941-05
Physical Description: 5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Art Antre Fieldtrip 5-41" Nagai and RC Miller
1941-05
Physical Description: 5 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Dick Garrod, Stockton"
Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.5
General
cibachrome
"Eastmans"
Physical Description: 2.75 x 4.5
General
gelatin silver print
"Flyer" roller coaster
Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.5
General
cibachrome
"Jackie on raft" (Jackie Coogan on the set of Huckleberry Finn)
1931-06
Physical Description: 2.5 x 3.75
General
gelatin silver print
"Lewis'" (Parking Lots, 7th Street, Los Angeles)
1937
Physical Description: 3.5 x 2.5
General
gelatin silver print
"Maura and Michael McGuriny (?) with Peggy Miller in foreground" (3 children on bikes)
1951-03-05
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Oceano" (sand dunes)
1947
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Olympic Boulevard - New Stretch East"
1937-06-24
Physical Description: 2.25 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
"Out the back window of the car - dust behind"
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Sleeping in the car"
1949
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"West on Wilshire from Vermont"
Physical Description: 3.5 x 2.5
General
gelatin silver print
Big Sur Coastline
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Driving, overpass construction?
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Hollywood Ranch Market
1949
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Miller family portrait
Physical Description: 4 x 4
General
gelatin silver print
Miniature Golf, June 1930
1930
Physical Description: 2.25 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
Pasadena Arroyo Bridge
1937-11-14
Physical Description: 3.25 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Peter Gowland (profile)
Physical Description: 4.25 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
RC Miller, Gaspar, and 2 others
Physical Description: 3.5 x 4.25
General
gelatin silver print
Self-portrait in Dodge hubcap
Physical Description: 3.25 x 4.5
General
gelatin silver print
Self-portrait in mirror
Physical Description: 5 x 3.5
General
gelatin silver print
24 prints from the Hollywood Freeway set
General
gelatin silver print
"Fire Area - No smoking - No open fires" sign with smoke on hill
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
"Freeway Intersection - design" (Level 8)
1949
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Cars on street with freeway construction in background
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
East Towards Bridge over Hillhurst
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Franklin and Vine #2
1952
Physical Description: 8.25 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway Construction (clearing with rocks, bridge in distance)
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway Construction (clearing with rocks, bridge)
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway construction (empty lot)
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway Construction (looking down into pit in canyon)
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway construction with "Another freeway for your safety" sign
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway construction with cement block
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway construction with cement block and guard rail
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway Construction with large tree
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway construction with pipe
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Freeway construction with rebar for pillars
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of 12: row 1: city streets, row 2: freeway construction sites, row 3: school party/reception, bridge with bus
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of four: City streets
Physical Description: 3 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of four: East at Occidental (1948), east from belmont street (1948), West from Hillhurst towards Vermont (1948), Seascape
(1953)
1948
1953
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of four: West at North Lake St, West Towards Figueroa, West from Grand, West at Occidental
1948
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of four: West towards Silver Lake Blvd., East at North Lake St., West at Hillhurst #1, West at Hillhurst #2
1948
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of four: West towrads Silver lake #2, West toawrds Silver lake #1, East from silver lake, East at north lake st. #2
1948
Physical Description: 8 x 10
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet of two: freeway construction with bridge slab / East toward Westlake
Physical Description: 8 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Sheet with 12 imags of freeway overpasses and bridges
Physical Description: 10 x 8
General
gelatin silver print
West at Grand
Physical Description: 4 x 5
General
gelatin silver print
Box 3, Folder 2-3
Los Angeles freeway photographs - printed and signed set
2009
Physical Description: 16 x 20"
Box 4
Negatives and transparencies of Los Angeles freeway construction
Physical Description: 4 x 5
Scope and Contents
80 b/w and 2 color transparencies of Freeway Construction