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Booth, Ralph H.

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1873 - 1931

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Ralph Harman and Mary Batterman Booth Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-03
Abstract Ralph Harman Booth was an art connoisseur, philanthropist, newspaper publisher, co-founder of Booth Newspapers, Inc., with his elder brother, George Gough Booth, and United States Minister to Denmark. An art collector and patron, he was the last President of the Detroit Museum of Art, the founding President of the Detroit Arts Commission, and served as the museum's Chief Executive Officer until the new museum, the Detroit Institute of Arts, opened on Woodward Avenue in October 1927. Booth...
Dates: 1900 - 1986