Scope and arrangement
The Buzz Miller papers, dating from 1906 to 1999, trace Miller's career and personal life through correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs, resumes, contracts, and Miller's notes and artwork.
The correspondence features a large number of Miller's letters to Alan Groh, and a large number of letters to Miller from his sister, Rosalene (Ronnie) Miller. Miller's letters to Groh date from 1958 to 1979. The 1958 letters were written while Miller was at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Italy. Later letters to Groh were also written while Miller was working internationally; there are letters from his tenure as choreographer for Tito Capobianco's production of Aida in Germany during 1972, and letters from a 1979 tour in Japan. Ronnie Miller's letters to Miller date from the 1940s and discuss her experiences serving in the Women's Army Corps in Iowa and California, as well as her life in Arizona before and after World War II. Other correspondence includes letters Miller wrote to his family, letters from Miller's agent, and short notes from Janet Flanner and Jerome Robbins.
The scrapbooks chronicle Miller's dance and choreography career from 1948 to 1980 with photographs, clippings, and programs. Other materials in the collection related to Miller's career include resumes, contracts, and short written reminiscences.
Photograph albums feature images of Miller's family, colleagues, and friends, including Jerome Robbins and Carol Haney. Most albums contain photographs of Miller, Groh, and others traveling in the United States and internationally from the 1970s to the 1990s; travel locations include Arizona, Israel, Spain, Italy, and Mexico. Family photographs date as early as 1907.
The collection also holds notes from Miller's time in the United States Army, and artwork by Miller and his family members that dates as early as 1906.
Arrangement
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