Detroit News (Firm)
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
George Gough Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-01
Abstract
The collection documents the life and work of George Gough Booth, a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist whose crowning achievement was the establishment of Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century. It includes biographical materials including legal documents, travel itineraries, talks and writings, and the financial and business records of the Cranbrook Press. It documents his working life...
Dates:
1864 - 1949
Cranbrook Academy of Art Women's Committee
Collection
Identifier: 1991-01
Abstract
The Cranbrook Academy of Arts Women’s Committee was founded on February 11, 1966 as the social arm of the Friends of the Academy (the Museum’s new membership program). The committee’s purpose was to promote and undertake activities and projects that would further the welfare of the Academy and the Museum. Throughout nearly forty years the committee hosted numerous events, programs, and fundraising projects until disbanded in 2002. The bulk of the collection reflects primarly the Women's...
Dates:
1966 - 2006
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- Art -- Study and teaching 1
- Art auctions 1
- Arts 1
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Carillons 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Church architecture 1
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 1
- Education 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Historic house museums 1
- Minerals 1
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 1
- Museums 1
- Newspapers 1
- Newspapers -- Ownership 1
- Photographs 1
- Prohibition 1
- Recreation 1
- Science museums 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Sculpture 1
- Students 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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