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DAVID & LYDIA MILLER EARTH BUILDING COLLECTION
RECORD GROUP SC23


This collection was received from the Millers in December 1985.  A preliminary inventory was done in the Summer of 1986.  The collection was refiled and boxed in Spring of 1993.   The following publication by the Millers can be located in the Michener Stacks: Rammed Earth Homes Manual For Building a Rammed Earth Wall. David J. & Lydia Miller.  Greeley, CO:  D. J. & Lydia Miller,  1980.  TH4818 S6 M5
 
SERIES 1 General Alphabetical files on earth houses
These are the original Miller files on earth buildings, constructions and supplies with photographs, correspondence and other materials.  They also contains several books on earth construction including the Miller publication Rammed Earth: A Selected Bibliography.  Greeley, CO:  Rammed Earth Institute International, 1982.  A large number of photographs are included in the files.
Folder List:
Box 1
Adobe
Adcock House
Aero 1981
Alles Acres
Alles Acres F.H.A. application
Alternative housing
American Libraries
American Society for Testing Houses
Appropriate Technology Center
Arizona Energy Office
Arizona University of Environmental Research
Arts and Architecture
Australia
Bainbridge, David A.
Bibliographies
Billings paid
Boggs, J. Palmer
Bohl, Chris - University of Wyoming engineering student
Borg Fauth patents
Borg, George
Building code
Building materials
Building research station
Business Weekly
Candea grants
Center for Maximum Building Systems
Clemson University
Clusa
Collier's Weekly
Cinva Conferences
Colorado Owner Building Center
Compressed Air Magazine
Coombes, Joy
Cooperative homestead of Detroit
Construire en Terre (book)
Box 2 Construction process
Correspondence
Council of American Officials
Day, Richard
Drawings for book
Easton, David, Reii
Editions alternatives
Elzora, Herman Ayrza
Energy Technology Engineering Center
Environmental Rammed Earth Builders Inc.
Ewadlsen, H. 
Experimental Builders Station
Fara:  Ones Institute Rural Center
Floors
Forms and settings
Foundations
Fuller, Dick
Box 3
General information
Germany and Austria
Ghost Ranch
Glossary
Haggard, Keith (SERI)
Hammond
Hassey
Heating
Hicks, David J. 
High Plains Earthen Homes Company
Hindman, R.E.
History of rammed earth
Houben, Hugo
Houben-proposed bibliography
Houses of St. Augustine
House plans
House S.R.
Howard, E.
H.U.D.
Insulation
International Conference of Building Officials
Intertect
Introduction
Iowa State University-Department of Civil Engineering
Italy
Kern, Ken
Kearney State College
Kohbra-sw Ken Branch
Lee A.B.
Letters to government officials from David J. Miller
Library of Congress
Long, V.D.
Manucy, Albert C.
Man, Chuck
McMeekin, Tom
Miller David J. Miller form
Miller house
Moles, grei -aptos, California
Mother Earth
Mother Earth letters
Mother Earth letters
Mohr house
New Delhi
New Mexico Solar Energy Association
Newspaper clippings on earth houses
Northern Arizona University
Notes for book
Box 4 N.T.I.S. 
Oosterbahm
Owner Built Home, The (book)
Patty, Ralph L.
Peter Van Dresser
Peterson, Charles
Proof for Olovetti final copy proof
Quitta
Rammed earth houses
       Rammed earth
Bibliography work file
Bills
Blocks
Books
Brochures
Correspondence enclosures
David J. Miller
Extra file for extra material
Institute International
Lam
Manual
Membership
Miscellaneous
News articles
Olivetti
Publications
Publishing permission
Reproduction office
Rough drafts (not for book)
Rough drafts (for book)
Soil tests
Unanswered
Work file
Workshops
Box 5
Reagan's Ranch
Real estate
Reject Report on condition of rammed earth house
Risom
Rocky Flats
Roofs
Root systems
Root systems-Bolton (msng)
Rural Housing Alliance
Russia
Rutz, F.R. and Associates
Ruyle house
Saboski, Ellie
SEANC
Search file
Simplex forms system company
Shippee, Paul--solar workshops
Sherman, Rev. William C.
SERI
Schmidt builders
Schneider, Gordon--earth technology
Schoonmaker, David
Schulze house
Schwarzer, Erwin, Dr.
Scientific American
Soil cements
Solar action team
Solar energy products
Solar flashes
Solar ideas
Solar news clippings
Solar utilization news
South Dakota
Spanish
St. Augustine Historical Society
Streif, David and Marcia
Sun Mountain Design
Symons Corporation
Tamping machinery
Texas A&M University--civil engineering
Texas A&M University--Transportation Institute
Texas State Technical Institute
Thermal mass
Trombe wall
Traudt, Ray
Turner, Don
United Nations
University of California
University of Colorado
University of Canterbury--New Zealand
University of Michigan
Wall protection
Wilson, W.A.
Western Technical Services Inc.
Workshops

 

 

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