Detroit News (Firm)
Organization
Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:
Taxes, correspondence, 1923-1925
File — Box: 10, Folder: 13
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
SERIES I: Biographical (1864-1969) contains materials related to the life of George Gough Booth and includes personal legal documents, typescripts of talks by Booth and several typescripts of Cyril Players' George Gough Booth of Cranbrook. SERIES II: Newspaper (1887-1959) contains documents relating to George G. Booth's tenure at The Detroit News, and his role, as chairman and later president of the Booth Publishing Co. SERIES III: General Correspondence (1813-1957)...
Dates:
1923-1925
Virginia Kingswood Booth Vogel Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1999-10
Abstract
Virginia Kingswood Booth Vogel was the only daughter of Ralph Harman Booth and Myrtle Mary Batterman Booth. Ralph Harman Booth was a cofounder of Booth Newspapers and a brother of George Gough Booth, founder of Cranbrook. As President of the Detroit Museum of Art and of the Detroit Arts Commission, Booth was responsible for the creation of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and served as the Institute's director as well as a member of its board of directors. Virginia Booth married William...
Dates:
1990 - 1998
Lee A. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1979-02
Abstract
Lee A White was a journalist, working for the Detroit News from 1911 until his retirement in 1952, except between 1914-1917, when he was an associate professor and chairman of the journalism department at the University of Washington. He developed a close relationship with George G. Booth, serving as his Editorial Secretary and, from 1936, he also served as Chief Librarian for the newspaper, and became its first Director of Public Relations. He served as Director of Cranbrook School for 20...
Dates:
1926 - 1958
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- Collection 10
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- Newspapers 5
- Scrapbooks 5
- Architecture 4
- Photographs 4
- Art -- Study and teaching 3
- Art auctions 3
- Arts 3
- Education 3
- Church architecture 2
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 2
- Exhibitions 2
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 2
- Newspapers -- Ownership 2
- Religion 2
- Religious literature -- Authorship 2
- Science museums 2
- Sculpture 2
- "In the Great Tradition" [Detroit News article, 1939] 1
- Architecture, Domestic 1
- Automobile industry and trade 1
- Automotive drafting 1
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Carillons 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Church dedication 1
- Clergy 1
- Decorative arts 1
- Design 1
- Embassy buildings 1
- Europe 1
- Furniture design 1
- Graphic arts 1
- Historic house museums 1
- Housing 1
- Industrial design 1
- Lutheran Conference 1
- Metalwork 1
- Minerals 1
- Motion pictures -- Production and direction 1
- Museums 1
- Painting 1
- Pastels (Visual works) 1
- Poetry -- Authorship 1
- Prohibition 1
- Public relations 1
- Railroad trains 1
- Recreation 1
- Students 1
- Temperance 1
- Trans World Airlines Terminal (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Weaving 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 ∧ less
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