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Randall was born in Wisconsin in 1907.
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Randall Mills
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University of California, Los Los Angeles
Career
In 1929 Mills received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (University of California, Los Angeles). His master’s degree was received from University of California, Berkeley in 1932. He became part of the English faculty in 1938.
Mills had a variety of interests.
One of his main interests was in the history of transportation in the Pacific Northwest, especially steamboats and railroads. He was also interested in all aspects of covered bridges.
Another subject for which Mills showed enthusiasm was folklore, particularly proverbs, dialects, songs, superstitions and place names. He served as Director for the Oregon branch of the American Dialect Society, he also chaired the state sub-committee for the collection of dialect sayings.
Mills died in 1952 at the age of 44.
The named its folklore archives in honor of Mills. The Mills Archives of Northwest, established in 1966, serve as a repository for information collected in Oregon by scholars and students of folklore. The archives are the largest facility of their kind in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
During his life, Mills assembled a collection of photographic negatives and prints of photographs depicting covered bridges and steamship captains in Oregon and railroad locomotives and cars in the western United States.
This collection is now held by the.
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1952 (aged 45)