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      <eadid countrycode="us" mainagencycode="wauar" encodinganalog="identifier" url="http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv43609" identifier="80444/xv43609">WAUMillerFamilyFilmsPHColl929.xml</eadid>
      <filedesc>
         <titlestmt>
            <titleproper>Guide to the Miller Family Films <date encodinganalog="date" era="ce">circa 1940-1970</date>
            </titleproper>
            <titleproper type="filing" altrender="nodisplay">Miller Family</titleproper>
         </titlestmt>
         <publicationstmt>
            <publisher encodinganalog="publisher">Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries</publisher>
            <date normal="2016" encodinganalog="date">© 2016 (Last modified: 1/31/2020)</date>
            <address>
               <addressline>Seattle, WA 98195</addressline>
            </address>
         </publicationstmt>
      </filedesc>
      <profiledesc>
         <langusage>Finding aid written in 
		  <language langcode="eng" encodinganalog="language" scriptcode="latn">English</language>.</langusage>
         <descrules>Finding aid based on DACS (<title render="italic" linktype="simple">Describing Archives: A Content Standard</title>).</descrules>
      </profiledesc>
   </eadheader>
   <archdesc level="collection" type="inventory" relatedencoding="marc21">
      <did>
         <repository>
            <corpname>University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections</corpname>
         </repository>
         <unitid countrycode="us" repositorycode="wauar">PH0929</unitid>
         <origination>
            <famname role="creator" encodinganalog="1003">Miller family</famname>
         </origination>
         <unittitle encodinganalog="245$a" type="collection">Miller Family
		  films</unittitle>
         <unitdate type="inclusive" encodinganalog="245$f" normal="1940/1970" certainty="approximate" era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1940-1970</unitdate>
         <physdesc rules="amim" label="Original">
            <extent>25 reels (1700 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm</extent>
         </physdesc>
         <langmaterial>Collection
		materials are in 
		<language langcode="eng" scriptcode="latn" encodinganalog="546">English</language>.</langmaterial>
         <abstract encodinganalog="5203_$a">Home movies from
		  the Miller family from circa 1940-1970</abstract>
      </did>
      <scopecontent encodinganalog="5202_" id="a3">
         <p> Home movies of Seattle including Sick's Seattle Stadium, Seafair,
		  Green Lake, Deception Pass, UW Varsity crew races, Lake Washington, car races.
		  Also includes Hawaii, British Coliumbia, and Ketchican, Alaska.</p>
      </scopecontent>
      <odd encodinganalog="500" id="a5">
         <p>Titles derived from notes written on the films.</p>
      </odd>
      <accessrestrict encodinganalog="506" id="a14">
         <p>The original films are not accessible due to preservation concerns. A
		  viewing copy is available and arrangements can be made to view the film by
		  contacting the Special Collections.</p>
      <p><extref href="https://uw.aeon.atlas-sys.com/logon/?Action=10&amp;Form=31&amp;Value=https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv43609/xml" role="text/html" actuate="onrequest" show="new" id="aeon">Request at UW</extref></p></accessrestrict>
      <userestrict encodinganalog="540" id="a15">
         <p>Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication.
		  Contact the Special Collections division of the University of Washington
		  Libraries for details.</p>
      </userestrict>
      <custodhist>
         <p>The films were donated to the Museum of History and Industry by Edmund
		  L. Ryder during a Home Movie Day event.</p>
      </custodhist>
      <acqinfo encodinganalog="541" id="a19">
         <p>Donor: Carolyn Marr for the Museum of History and Industry, October
		  21, 2004.</p>
      </acqinfo>
      <processinfo>
         <p>Processed by Alden Lee, 2013; completed by Elizabeth Russell,
		  2014.</p>
      </processinfo>
      <controlaccess>
         <famname role="subject" encodinganalog="600" altrender="sync">Miller family--Archives</famname>
         <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" altrender="sync">Royal Hawaiian Hotel</corpname>
         <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610" altrender="sync">Sick's Stadium (Seattle, Wash.)</corpname>
         <geogname source="lcsh" rules="scm" role="subject" encodinganalog="651">Waimea Bay (Oahu, Hawaii)</geogname>
         <geogname source="lcsh" rules="scm" role="subject" encodinganalog="651">Seattle (Wash.)</geogname>
         <geogname source="lcsh" rules="scm" role="subject" encodinganalog="651">Washington, Lake (Wash.)</geogname>
         <geogname source="lcsh" rules="scm" role="subject" encodinganalog="651">Ketchikan (Alaska)</geogname>
         <geogname source="lcsh" rules="scm" role="subject" encodinganalog="651">British Columbia</geogname>
         <subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650" rules="scm">Rowing--Washington (State)--Seattle</subject>
         <subject source="lcsh" encodinganalog="650" rules="scm">Sailboats--Washington (State)--Seattle</subject>
         <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="lcgft" altrender="nodisplay">Nonfiction films</genreform>
         <genreform encodinganalog="655" source="lcgft" altrender="nodisplay">Amateur films</genreform>
         <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610">President Wilson (Steamship)</corpname>
         <corpname role="subject" encodinganalog="610">Algonquin (Boat)</corpname>
         <subject source="uwsc">Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)</subject>
         <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Moving Images</subject>
         <subject source="archiveswest" altrender="nodisplay">Seattle</subject>
      </controlaccess>
      <dsc type="combined">
         <p> </p>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">1</container>
               <container type="item">1</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">In a Rowboat</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1951</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (20 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Three people in a rowboat.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">2</container>
               <container type="item">2</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Waimea Bay,
				Hawaii</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1956</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Aerial view of city, with people on a rooftop. VIews of meadows
				and mountains, and driving on highway. Driving on a rocky coast, and women
				walking on path. A sign that reads: “Waimea Bay." A beach, with people
				swimming and boating.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">3</container>
               <container type="item">3</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Airplane</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1957</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>An airplane takes off; aerial views. Antique cars.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">4</container>
               <container type="item">4</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Rowboat</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1951</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (15 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Woman in water pushing a rowboat; a man rowing up to a dock; a
				woman with an innertube; a man getting into a boat.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">5</container>
               <container type="item">5</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">
                     <emph render="italic">Royal Hawaiian
				Hotel Scenes</emph>
                  </emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1953-1955</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (200 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Beach, hotel. Black car drives past foliage; men and women in
				flowered dresses and leis, hula dancers and musicians outside building. Trees,
				flowers. Woman in ball gown inside banquet hall, flowers, women in line for
				food, on banquet table: meat, pineapple, cakes; tents and tables outside.
				"Waikiki Beach and Outrigger Canoes." Aerial view of beach and canoes, sky,
				hotel, man making and selling grass hats. People get in canoes, rowing in
				water. Aerial view of city, coast, ocean. Hula dancers and musicians, man
				dancing. Ship <emph render="italic">President Wilson</emph>. In town, cars,
				musicians perform. Woman looks at flowers; plants on beach, rocks, people
				sunbathing. Aerial view of countryside. People playing in waves. Foliage, women
				looking at flower bushes.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="viewcopy">VC95</container>
               <container type="item">6</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Seattle,
				Washington</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1951</unitdate>
               <daogrp>
                  <resource label="start"> </resource>
                  <daoloc label="icon" role="text/html" href="http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/filmarch/searchterm/MV0377/field/all/mode/any/conn/and/order/title"/>
                  <arc from="start" to="icon" show="new" actuate="onrequest"/>
               </daogrp>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Baseball game in a large stadium (probably Sick's Stadium). A
				marching band, followed by a color guard, on a neighborhood sports field. A
				large parade on a downtown street. Tall waterfall, with a system of walkways at
				the base for public use. Men fishing in a stream. Men playing catch with
				baseball in a field at the edge of water. A parade in downtown Seattle with
				marching bands, floats, pipers, men in colonial costumes, and servicepeople in
				military dress. Parade float slogan: "Seattle all-out for defense."</p>
            </scopecontent>
            <odd>
               <head>Original</head>
               <p>1 reel (200 feet) : silent, black and white ; 8mm</p>
            </odd>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">7</container>
               <container type="item">7</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Asia</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1940</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (230 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>People boarding ship; streamers from ship to people on land.
				People working in rice paddy. Houses, Asian women. Houses in snow, water,
				mountains. Pagodas, people walking on path. Driving past mountains. Women in
				kimonos walking on path; people carrying objects on path. Fields, houses,
				bridge, people walking. Driving past mountains. People walking. Trees,
				houses.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="viewcopy">VC95</container>
               <container type="item">8</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Seattle,
				Washington</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1936-1940</unitdate>
               <daogrp>
                  <resource label="start"> </resource>
                  <daoloc label="icon" role="text/html" href="http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/search/collection/filmarch/searchterm/MV0378/field/all/mode/any/conn/and/order/title"/>
                  <arc from="start" to="icon" show="new" actuate="onrequest"/>
               </daogrp>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>The deck of a moving ship, with passengers and crew milling
				around. Construction of the Lacey V. Murrow Memorial bridge across Lake
				Washington. The exterior of Sick's Seattle Stadium. Lights and signs of
				downtown Seattle at night. Distant mountains in the daytime.</p>
            </scopecontent>
            <note>
               <p>The Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge (Lake Washington Floating
				Bridge) opened on July 2, 1940. Sick's Stadium was the home of the Seattle
				Rainiers, Seattle's first Major League Baseball club.</p>
            </note>
            <odd>
               <head>Original</head>
               <p>1 reel (125 feet) : silent, black and white ; 8mm</p>
            </odd>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="viewcopy">VC95</container>
               <container type="item">9</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Lake Washington</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1966</unitdate>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Crew races on Lake Washington. Close-ups of various crew
				spectators in sunglasses. Activity on Lake Washington concurrent with the
				races, such as private boating and flying, and kayaking.</p>
            </scopecontent>
            <odd>
               <head>Original</head>
               <p>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</p>
            </odd>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="viewcopy">VC95</container>
               <container type="item">10</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Crew Races</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1951</unitdate>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p> Crew races on Lake Washington, with spectators on the shore.
				Newspaper headline: “Washington Husky Sports.”</p>
            </scopecontent>
            <odd>
               <head>Original</head>
               <p>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</p>
            </odd>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="viewcopy">VC95</container>
               <container type="item">11</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Seattle,
				Washington</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1966</unitdate>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Antique car show, with close-ups on cars and responses from
				drivers. Double exposure of film for the remainder: Crew races on Lake
				Washington, with ducks along the shore. Two women, one in a wheelchair, petting
				a dog while socializing in front of a parked car. A boat, the 
				<emph render="italic">W.T. Preston</emph>, on the water. An amphibious red
				convertible riding across the water.</p>
            </scopecontent>
            <note>
               <p>The <emph render="italic">W.T. Preston</emph> was a "snagboat" for
				controlling natural debris along several Puget Sound rivers. Originally docked
				at the Hiram M. Chittendem Locks in Seattle, the ship was moved to Anacortes,
				Washington, and given National Historic Landmark status.</p>
            </note>
            <odd>
               <head>Original</head>
               <p>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</p>
            </odd>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">12</container>
               <container type="item">12</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">People Sitting at
				Table</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1966</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (60 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>A candle flame. Kitchen, with counter, sink, and a bowl of
				oranges. People sitting at a table.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">13</container>
               <container type="item">13</container>
               <unittitle>Lake Washington</unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1966</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (60 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Man in a white shirt. Globe. Boats on Lake Washington, and crew
				races.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">14</container>
               <container type="item">14</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Sailboats</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1966</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Sailboats. Woman in a wheelchair with binoculars being pushed near
				water, and two other women with a dog. A speedboat. Woman in wheelchair looks
				at trees and mountains.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">15</container>
               <container type="item">15</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Car Show</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1966</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Woman in wheelchair outside; antique car show; another woman
				pushes wheelchair; cars driving; woman with tie holds up flag on car; cars; men
				talking; man and woman pose.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">16</container>
               <container type="item">16</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">British Columbia</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1969</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; Super 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Rocky coast, mountains; boats in harbor. License plate
				“Beautiful British Columbia;” back alley buildings. Boat, 
				<emph render="italic">Sun Corona</emph>, boats in harbor; bird on street light,
				boats.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">17</container>
               <container type="item">17</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Ketchikan, Alaska</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1969</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (50 feet) : silent, color ; Super 8mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Boat, <emph render="italic">Algonquin</emph>, with American flag;
				Alaska license plate; camera turns upside down; mountains, airplane; sign:
				“Ketchikan Airport International;” truck. Man in wheelchair,
				people with luggage; truck: “Murray Gildersleeve Logging Co. Inc
				Ketchikan Alaska,” boat, <emph render="italic">Ketchikan Queen</emph>,
				next to man in wheelchair.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
         <c01 level="item">
            <did>
               <container type="reel">18</container>
               <container type="item">18</container>
               <unittitle>
                  <emph render="italic">Warehouse</emph>
               </unittitle>
               <unitdate era="ce" calendar="gregorian">circa 1973-1974</unitdate>
               <physdesc>
                  <extent>1 reel (100 feet) : silent, color ; 16mm</extent>
               </physdesc>
            </did>
            <scopecontent>
               <p>Stack of wood boards; man in suit comes into warehouse.</p>
            </scopecontent>
         </c01>
      </dsc>
   </archdesc>
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