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Miller (James Arthur) papers
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Box 1, folder 1

Palo Alto radio history

Scope and Contents

Includes packet of plans and photographs from Federal Telegraph/Federal Telecommunication Laboratories, clippings, etc.
Copies of The Tall Tree have been cataloged separately:
https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13296594
Box 1, folder 2

Stanford University alumni ephemera etc.

Box 1, folder 3

Stanford University correspondence 1931, 1952-1971

Scope and Contents

Includes a series of 1931 letters concerning a private recording by President E.E. Swain & Charles K. Field; the copper master and two pressings were given to Stanford Libraries but their current whereabouts is unknown. Also contains 1931 letter to and from C.F. Elwell, letters to Wallace Sterling, F.W. Terman, Stanford Research Institute, General Secretary James Triolo, William F. Buckley, condolence letter to Mrs. Miller from Richard Lyman 11/9/1971.
Box 1, folder 4

Miller biographies, photographs, personal ephemera

Box 1, folder 5

Miller biographical news clippings

Box 1, folder 6

Richard Nixon & political correspondence

Box 1, folder 7

Audio Engineering Society, Society of Motion Picture Engineers

Box 1, folder 8

Society of Wireless Pioneers

Box 1, folder 9

Scrapbook/photo album [unfoldered]

Box 2, folder 1

Miller Broadcasting System correspondence circa 1937-1950

Scope and Contents

Includes reply cards sent to WOR, 1937; American Tobacco Company Advertising Department 1939-1940 re: WOR Kay Kyser broadcasts; Leopold Stokowski Bell Labs demo 1940; Artie Malvin & Vi Martens testimonials on Miller Broadcasting letterhead 1945; Thomas A. Edison Inc./Harry Lanahan/Victor Young 1949; Edwin H. Armstrong 1950.
Box 2, folder 2

Miller press releases & promotional material

Scope and Contents

Mostly Miller Broadcasting System. One Miller Radio Laboratories 1927 typescript re: sound films; one Miller Radiofilm Corp. release re: radio program recorded on film.
Box 2, folder 3

Magazines & trade journals

Scope and Contents

Hollywood Reporter Vol. 33 No.46 1936 (Millerfilm ad) ; Hollywood Daily Screen World Vol. 252 No.1 1929; Radio Digest Vol. VIII No.8 1924 (see https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Digest/1924/Radio-Digest-1924-03-01.pdf) ; Sound Waves Vol.3 No.6 1929 (article on Miller's Brunswick/Vitavox activities).
Box 2, folder 4

Miller articles - clippings

Box 2, folder 5

Millertape documentation

Box 2, folder 6

Record press - handwritten technical notes & photographs

Box 2, folder 7

Equipment photographs

Box 2, folder 8

Announcing machine ("Iron Man")

Box 2, folder 9

Duo Trac & Vis-o-Graph catalogs

Scope and Contents

Two English Duo-Trac catalogs, 1937, one Rudy Vallee/Vis-O-Graph pamphlet circa 1941.
Box 2, folder 10

Lang-Worth Transcriptions promotional packet circa 1949-1950

Scope and Contents

Introduces new 8" transcription series invented by Miller
Box 2, folder 11

Sound recording reports

Scope and Contents

Includes Victor Engineering Department Report No.233 on Western Electric July 16, 1925 ; Maxfield & Harrison - Methods of High Quality Recording reprint.
Box 2, folder 12

American Federation of Musicians clippings & documents circa 1939-1940

Box 2, folder 13

Microfilm, Kodak, educational uses

Box 2, folder 14

Miscellaneous correspondence

Scope and Contents

Movie industry telegrams to Miller 1928-1929; Sherman Fairchild circa 1955; Hollywood Museum 1964
Box 2, folder 15

N.V. Philips correspondence & notes 1934-1936, 1963-1964, 1971

Box 2, folder 16

Philips Technical Review and related

Box 3, folder 1-3

Patents

Box 3, folder 4

U.S. Navy & French documents & photographs

Box 3, folder 5

Lafayette Station, Bordeaux photographs

Box 3, folder 6

Mine Sweeping Sound Detection Apparatus Instruction Manual [2 copies]

Box 4

Phonograph records

Scope and Contents

Lang-Worth transcriptions (eight 8" pressings, various numberings); Songs of Fairy Tales - Plastic Record Corp. (7" record in printed box); Esther - Audio Book Co. (four 7" records, three with oversize center holes); Miller tests (two 7" records, labeled "Recorded with Miller Cutter ... Pressed on pure vinylite by Miller process ... For Test Purposes Only")
Box 4

Miller record labels

Box 5

Principles of Electricity Applied to Telephone And Telegraph Work, 1938 Ed. (inscribed by Miller)

Box 5

French certificate awarded to Miller 1920

Box 5

Life magazine with article about Churchill War Room

Box 6

Millertapes

Scope and Contents

Two dented metal film cans (presumably containing tapes), two pancake reels removed from rusty can, other strips
Box 7

Two microscopes & various optical components, etc. in box

Box 7

Electrical equipment or parts in box

Box 7

Cutting stylii in small box

Box 7

Plate-shaped blue discs

Scope and Contents

Made of some kind of particulate, some damage. Possibly related to record pressing. Box also contains broken Little Wonder record.
Box 7

Miller personal ephemera

Scope and Contents

Two small boxes with military insignia and/or medals, pole vaulting trophy
Box 7

Miller Broadcasting embosser

Box 7

Small box of tools

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