Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902-
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1902 - 1989
Found in 6 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 Administration Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-09
Abstract
In 1927 George G. Booth established the Cranbrook Academy of Art as an educational environment where students could come and learn from master artists in residence. The Academy functioned as a department under the Cranbrook Foundation and included painting, architecture, sculpture, ceramics and decorative design. The first Academy students were taken in early 1930. Eliel Saarinen was the first President (1932-1946). In 1942, with the opening of the Museum and Library, the Academy became an...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1973
Cranbrook Architectural Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1989-01
Abstract
Records of the Cranbrook Architectural Office which was responsible for the supervision, inspection, approval and acceptance of all construction work at Cranbrook, beginning with Eliel Saarinen's leadership through its closure in the 1980s. The materials reflect the planning and building phases of the Brookside School (BS), Christ Church Cranbrook (CCC), Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA), Cranbrook House, Cranbrook Institute of Science (CIS), Cranbrook School (CS), Kingswood School (KS), and...
Dates:
1925 - 1987
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 Foundation, Planning, Building and Grounds; Correspondence, 1945 - 1972
File — Container: Box 37, Folder: 15
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:
1945 - 1972
S. Glen Paulsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1991-25
Abstract
Serenus Glen Paulsen attended the University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Art from 1938 to 1942, then spent three years in the military under commanding officer, Marshall Fredericks (a sculptor). After the war, he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Fine Arts, followed by a Master of Architecture and City Planning from the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. Paulsen worked for several firms, including Eero Saarinen and...
Dates:
1940 - 1990
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- Archival Object 1
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- Architecture 5
- Architecture, Domestic 3
- Church architecture 3
- Education 3
- Science museums 3
- Art -- Study and teaching 2
- Glass painting and staining 2
- Landscapes 2
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 2
- Museums 2
- Administration 1
- Art auctions 1
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Buildings and grounds 1
- Carillons 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Commercial buildings 1
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 1
- Cranbrook Foundation Master Plan 1
- Cranbrook Foundation Trust document 1
- Design 1
- Embassy buildings 1
- Exhibitions 1
- Historic buildings 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Industrial design 1
- Memorials 1
- Metalwork 1
- Minerals 1
- Newspapers -- Ownership 1
- Painting 1
- Photographs 1
- Prohibition 1
- Public buildings 1
- Religion 1
- Renovation (Architecture) 1
- School buildings 1
- Sculpture 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Textiles 1
- Weaving 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- architectural drawings (visual works) 1 ∧ less
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