Digital Materials, Primarily Book Files and Miller Family Items

Original materials were taken from four DVDs. Content of the DVDs is as follows:


DVD 1 – includes drafts of all six books (PDF and Word documents), research pictures of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, research and photographs for “Miner: A Life Underground” book, miscellaneous genealogy files, material on Frank Goettge, research on K Company in general, image of the Coal Heritage Award for research on coal mining and West Virginia awarded to Miller for “Coal Bloom”, research on Matanikau River in Guadalcanal, drafts of proposed book from James McEnery (TI’s son David Miller edited McEnery’s eventual book, “Hell in the Pacific”, from McEnery’s notes), research on Operation Dovetail, press release and PR for all Thurman Miller books, miscellaneous pictures from public domain sources such as the Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons for books and proposed books, and research, photos and drafts of “Suicide Creek” produced by David T. Miller.


DVD 2 – includes additional research for all books, over 100 photos from the author’s personal collection, Internet research regarding K35, video interviews with TI Miller by Rare Earth Productions, family pictures of the Miller/Meadows/Rinehart families, interview from 1983 among approximately 10 surviving members of K35, telephone-recorded telephone interviews with TI Miller and David T. Miller with K35 members James McEnery and WV native Slim Summerville. Also includes a complete digitized copy of the “West Point Military Atlas of World War Two” created by David T. Miller, publicity photos of Thurman Miller in his mining gear, pictures from military event at Fort Walton Beach, various contract drafts and materials for book “Earned in Blood”. Also includes high-resolution scan of wide-scale photograph of Helen school 1947, with children lined up in front, believed to be the work of Red Ribble but unsigned. Also similar wide photograph approximately 9 x 50 of 1952 Constitutional Convention of UMWA in Cincinnati, with TI Miller’s father-in-law Dewey Marshall (Thurman’s wife was Recie) visible. Also includes high-res wide-scale image of town of Helen taken from the hill above town, possibly also Ribble, also 1947.


DVD 3 – includes video of additional book signings, television appearances, etc.


Additional digitized photographs (approx. 2500, mostly family albums). Includes a folder of very old family photos compiled by TI's cousin Sue Ellen Gillespie.


Also includes recordings of Otsego Quartet--TI Miller and his sister Kathleen had a gospel quartet in the 1950s, with their two cousins Bernice and Minnie Rinehart, and the Rinehart's daughter Karen on piano. They had a long-running show on WWYO in Pineville and made numerous appearances throughout southern WV. They made a handful of 78s, none of which survive in good condition. These digital copies were made from the best available; sound quality is low but one can get a sense of their style, very much based in the shaped-note tradition the four members came up in, with piano on some (likely played by Karen).


DVD 4 - Digital images of TI Miller’s WWII dog tags, ribbons, medals, citations, discharge papers, etc.