Shane Miller Collection, 1968-1969

Access and use

Location of collection:
Edgar Cayce Foundation
Edgar Cayce Foundation
215 S. 67th Street
Virginia Beach, VA 23451
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jessica Newell
Phone: (757) 457-7204
Terms of access:

Collection is open for research use.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item,] [date (if known)]; Shane Miller Collection, Coll. 28, box_, folder_, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Summary

Extent:
1.2 Linear Feet 3 boxes.
Creator:
Miller, Shane ; Tomlin, Fred
Language:
Materials in this collection are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item,] [date (if known)]; Shane Miller Collection, Coll. 28, box_, folder_, The Edgar Cayce Foundation, Virginia Beach, Virginia.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection includes audiotape, draft materials, painted illustrations, and scripts for Shane Miller's slide presentation "The Story of Revelation," produced in association with Tomlin Films from 1968-1969. Douglass B. Tomlin, Fred Tomlin, and Ray Owens of Tomlin Films also worked on the project.

Biographical / historical:

Richard Shane Miller was born on January 25, 1907 in Reading, Pennsylvania to Benjamin F. Miller and Edith Shane. Miller worked as a commercial artist and an animated cartoon illustrator, employed by Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, California, and Max Fleischer Studios in Miami, Florida.

He was a co-founder of the Association for Research and Enlightenment New York Center in 1950. He participated in New York Center activities for over 20 years. He served as a regional representative and a speaker before moving to Australia to study with Raynor Johnson. Miller moved moved to Virginia Beach after his wife Janet's death.

He created an illustrated slide presentation entitled "The Story of Revelation" with Fred Tomlin of Tomlin Films (New York City) from 1968-1969. He contributed art to Venture Inward Magazine. Miller wrote books including Desert Fighter: The Story of General Yigael Yadin and the Dead Sea Scrolls (1967); The Bible as a Handbook for Understanding Self (1963); and Dreams: The Language of the Unconscious, co-authored with Hugh Lynn Cayce and Tom C. Clark (1971).

Shane Miller died in Virginia Beach on November 26, 1992 at the age of 85.

Custodial history:

The E.C.F. accessioned this collection from another location on the A.R.E. campus on January 19, 1989.

Arrangement:

Collection is arranged alphabetically by material type.