The Roy Slade Records are a comprehensive look at CAA and CAM from 1976 to 1998. Slade was an extremely careful administrator, keeping meticulous records on activities and plans. His involvement with repair and restoration and planning issues across campus was vast.

SERIES I: Cranbrook Academy of Art (1951-1995) depicts the varied activities of CAA including faculty and student events and activities, administration’s interaction with faculty and students, meeting minutes, planning documents, and correspondence with alumni/ae.

SERIES II: Cranbrook Art Museum (1977-1993) details the activities of the CAM and the museum staff. It includes documentation of the grants awarded, donor correspondence, exhibits held, publications produced, and the reinstallation of the Cranbrook Collection.

SERIES III: Cranbrook Educational Community (1977-1998) chronicles the interaction between CAA and the rest of Cranbrook Educational Community including the Schools, Institute of Science, and Central Offices such as Development, Public Relations, and Finance.

PART II: This addition consists mostly of subject files from the academic years 1989-1990 and 1990-1991. Similar in topics, types of documents, and order to Part I, these materials fill a gap in the records in Part 1 for those same years.