Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1835 - 1906
Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:
"A Newspaper Career", 1905-04-21
File — Box: 9, Folder: 7
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:
1905-04-21
Ellen Warren Scripps Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-03
Abstract
Ellen Warren Scripps Booth co-founder of Cranbrook with her husband George G. Booth, was eldest daughter of James E. Scripps, founder of the Evening News (later the Detroit News), and Harriet J. Messinger Scripps. As a young woman, Ellen Booth did editorial work for both the Evening News and the Detroit Tribune, which her father purchased in 1891. She was the mother of five children: James S. Booth (1888-1954), Grace E. Booth (1890-1978), Warren S. Booth (1894-1987), Henry S. Booth...
Dates:
1870 - 1948
Booth, George G., letter to James E. Scripps, undated
File — Box: 6, Folder: 11
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:
undated
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
Chicago Journal, correspondence, 1895-1902
File — Box: 7, Folder: 9-20
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:
1895-1902
Chicago Journal, correspondence, 1902-1906
File — Box: 8, Folder: 1-3
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:
1902-1906
Doris Corbett Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2010-08
Abstract
Doris Corbett was a history professor and well-known singer and ballad composer, teaching and performing throughout the United States and Canada. While pursuing her doctorate in history, Ms. Corbett’s research brought her to Cranbrook to study the Arts & Crafts movement, Ellen Scripps Booth, and Nellie Beveridge Gray. The bulk of the collection consists of Ms. Corbett’s research of Ellen Scripps Booth and Nellie Beveridge Gray. Of particular note are the transcripts of the oral histories...
Dates:
Circa 1873-1989
Cranbrook Foundation Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-05
Abstract
The Cranbrook Foundation was established on November 28, 1927, by George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. It was a trust and administrative entity to endow and support the six institutions that George and Ellen had founded: Brookside School Cranbrook, Christ Church Cranbrook, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook School, and Kingswood School Cranbrook. It's initial mission was, "to add to and strengthen the educational and cultural facilities within the...
Dates:
1926 - 1973
Cranbrook House and Gardens Auxiliary, House Aux.; Correspondence, 1976 - 1987
File — Container: Box 39, Folder: 11
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
Series I: General Correspondence (1909-1988) contains correspondence between Henry and Carolyn Booth and their family and friends in the period 1909-1988. Important subjects in this series include the following: Asheville School 1913-1918; University of Michigan 1918-1924; Travels in Europe by Henry Scripps Booth and J. Robert F. Swanson during the period July 1922 - May 1923. Correspondence between Henry Scripps Booth and Carolyn Farr Booth; Travels by George Gough Booth and Ellen Warren...
Dates:
1976 - 1987
Detroit Free Press, correspondence, 1903-1906
File — Box: 8, Folder: 4-6
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:
1903-1906
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- Archival Object 40
- Collection 7
- Subject
- Newspapers 5
- Portraits 5
- Newspapers -- Ownership 4
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 3
- Gifts 3
- Memorials 3
- Renovation (Architecture) 3
- Architecture 2
- Art objects 2
- Church architecture 2
- Detroit evening news 2
- Photographs 2
- Science museums 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- "Cranbrook quarterly" 1
- Ambrotype 1
- Architecture, Domestic 1
- Art -- Study and teaching 1
- Art auctions 1
- Arts and Crafts in Detroit 1
- Arts and crafts movement 1
- Avalon Cottage (Mass.) 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction 1
- Canada -- Description and travel 1
- Carillons 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Chicago journal 1
- Chicago mail 1
- Composition (Music) 1
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 1
- Cranbrook House (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Detroit tribune 1
- Editorials 1
- Education 1
- Fountains 1
- Georgia -- Description and travel 1
- Glass painting and staining 1
- Grand Rapids press 1
- Jackson Patriot 1
- James E. Scripps House (Trumball Avenue, Detroit, Mich.) 1
- Jonah Fountain (Cranbrook) 1
- Labor unions -- Organizing 1
- Massachusetts -- Description and travel 1
- Mexico 1
- Minerals 1
- Morning Room (Cranbrook House : Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 1
- Museums 1
- Musicals 1
- New Hampshire -- Description and travel 1
- Nursing 1
- Oral history 1
- Painting 1
- Political issues 1
- Portrait painters 1
- Prohibition 1
- Religion 1
- School principals 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Scripps Residence (Detroit, Mich.) 1
- Sculpture 1
- Sketchbooks & albums 1
- Sunglitter 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Textiles 1
- Thornlea Studio (Cranbrook : Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Tintype 1
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