Milles, Carl, 1875-1955
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1875 - 1955
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Cranbrook Foundation, Public Relations Council; Correspondence, 1957 - 1974
File — Container: Box 37, Folder: 20
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:
1957 - 1974
Cranbrook Founders’ Day Records
Collection
Identifier: 1996-09
Abstract
The Founders' Award recognizes those who have made a special contribution to Cranbrook. The first Founders’ Day Celebration was held at Cranbrook School on October 26, 1928. After dinner at the school, George Gough Booth made an address to the student body, formally conveying the school buildings to them, and speaking of citizenship. He also made a presentation to the school of Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of George Washington, to be hung in the lobby of the Commons. The formal address,...
Dates:
1928 - 1993
Cranbrook Magazine, Spring 1971
Item — Container: Volume 2 Number 3
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
CEC Publications comprises eight serials produced by the CEC from various departments and with a number of different target audiences. Ranging from staff newsletters to community magazines, they feature a variety of topics covering all Cranbrook Institutions. With the exception of the Annual Reports, which continued electronically, all titles have ceased publication.SERIES I: Annual Reports (1980-2005)SERIES II: Construction Dispatch (1992-2000) SERIES...
Dates:
Spring 1971
Cranbrook Press and Photo Department Records
Collection
Identifier: 1990-42
Abstract
In 1900, George Gough Booth established the Cranbrook Press at the Detroit Evening News building. The enterprise lasted only two years, but it was later revived at Cranbrook in 1930. The Print Shop was headed by Edward Alonzo Miller, a well-known typographer, and Jean Eschmann, a bookbinder of high repute, and already employed by Booth, provided fine leather bindings. The first volume produced by Miller and Eschmann was a service book for the Festival of Gifts at Cranbrook Church. The...
Dates:
1929 - 1975
Cranbrook Quarterly, Autumn 1975
Item — Container: Volume 1 Number 2
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
CEC Publications comprises eight serials produced by the CEC from various departments and with a number of different target audiences. Ranging from staff newsletters to community magazines, they feature a variety of topics covering all Cranbrook Institutions. With the exception of the Annual Reports, which continued electronically, all titles have ceased publication.SERIES I: Annual Reports (1980-2005)SERIES II: Construction Dispatch (1992-2000) SERIES...
Dates:
Autumn 1975
Cranbrook Quarterly, February 1980
Item — Container: Volume 5 Number 3
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
CEC Publications comprises eight serials produced by the CEC from various departments and with a number of different target audiences. Ranging from staff newsletters to community magazines, they feature a variety of topics covering all Cranbrook Institutions. With the exception of the Annual Reports, which continued electronically, all titles have ceased publication.SERIES I: Annual Reports (1980-2005)SERIES II: Construction Dispatch (1992-2000) SERIES...
Dates:
February 1980
Kingswood School Records
Collection
Identifier: 1980-01
Abstract
Kingswood School Cranbrook was a day and boarding school for girls beginning with the seventh grade and continuing through the twelfth grade. Kingswood School was established through a deed of Trust executed on July 24, 1930, between the Cranbrook Foundation and a Board of Trustees consisting of William T. Barbour, Ralph Stone, Luman W. Goodenough, Alvan Macauley, Clarence H. Booth, James Inglis, and Sidney D. Waldon. The Board selected Gladys Turnbach, of Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield,...
Dates:
1930 - 1985
William Gehron Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2003-08
Abstract
William Gehron was a lifelong friend of Carl Milles from 1929 when he published an article on him in the journal Architecture. Gehron was instrumental in securing the 1938 commission for Milles of the bronze doors for the Finance Building at Capitol Park, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a building designed by Gehron. The William Gehron Papers consist primarily of correspondence between Gehron and Carl Milles from 1929-1949. The bulk of the correspondence relates to the Harrisburg projects and...
Dates:
1917 - 2000
History, 1924 - 1988
File — Container: Box 5, Folder: 10
Collection Scope
From the Collection:
The records in this collection cover Brookside School from its beginnings, as Bloomfield Hills School in 1922, then from 1930 as Brookside School Cranbrook through 2019. Series I: Governance (1922-1984 contains correspondence, legal documents, and minutes for the Children's School Trust, Board of Trustees, and Board of Directors. Series II: Administration (1922-2004) provides information on admissions; curriculum; histories; and headmistress/headmaster appointments,...
Dates:
1924 - 1988
Margueritte Kimball Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1991-03
Abstract
Margueritte Eleanor Kimball was born on October 19, 1906, in Clinton, Massachusetts. In 1942 Kimball joined the Cranbrook Academy of Art as a student and immediately began serving as the Academy's financial secretary. A beloved and respected member of the Cranbrook community, Kimball used her position to interact with and collect various materials relating to the Academy's faculty and students. Kimball retired in 1968, nevertheless spending her remaining years in Boston as an exhibiting...
Dates:
Majority of material found in circa 1941-1996; undated
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- Collection 25
- Archival Object 18
- Subject
- Sculpture 9
- Art -- Study and teaching 7
- Education 6
- Architecture 5
- Exhibitions 5
- Photographs 5
- Scrapbooks 5
- Arts and crafts movement 4
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 4
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 4
- Science museums 4
- Weaving 4
- Architecture, Domestic 3
- Metalwork 3
- Oral history 3
- Tower Cottage (Cranbrook : Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Arts 2
- Bookbinding 2
- Ceramics 2
- Church architecture 2
- Cornerstone laying 2
- Cranbrook Homestead (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Devices (Heraldry) 2
- France -- Description and travel 2
- Glass painting and staining 2
- Libraries 2
- Minerals 2
- Music 2
- Painting 2
- Prohibition 2
- Religion 2
- Textile fabrics 2
- Textiles 2
- Anniversary (50th) 1
- Armor 1
- Art 1
- Art auctions 1
- Art students 1
- Artists' studios 1
- Automobile industry and trade 1
- Automobiles 1
- Ballets 1
- Birds 1
- Birthday parties 1
- Carillon and organ music 1
- Carillons 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Class reunions 1
- Composition (Music) 1
- Concerts 1
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 1
- Design 1
- Detroit News 1
- Dinners and dining 1
- Enrolment 1
- Fairhope (Ala.) 1
- Finance 1
- Flags 1
- Florida -- Description and travel 1
- Fountains 1
- Fountains of faith (Belgian Academy) 1
- Furniture design 1
- Gardening -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardens 1
- George G. Booth birthday centennial 1
- Greenhouses 1
- Hemflit 1
- Hospitals 1
- Industrial design 1
- Italy -- Description and travel 1
- Jonah and the Whale 1
- Kirkkonummi (Finland) 1
- Library (Cranbrook House : Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Metalsmithing Studio 1
- Mexico 1
- Milles at Cranbrook 1
- Museum visitors 1
- Museums 1
- New York (State) -- Description and travel 1
- Newspapers -- Ownership 1
- Nursery schools 1
- Nursing 1
- Parent meeting [1922] 1
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- Performing arts 1
- Philosophy 1
- Photography 1
- Printing presses 1
- Publications 1
- Rams heads 1
- Rug and carpet industry 1
- Rugs 1
- Saarinen House (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- School enrollment 1
- Science 1
- Shields 1
- Signs and signboards 1
- Silverwork 1
- Sketchbooks & albums 1
- Snowy owl crest 1 ∧ less
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