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 (1897-1988), and Florence L. Booth (1902-1983). Through her father's interest in the fine arts and, also, through her travels in Europe, Ellen Booth acquired an education in the history of fine arts, which enabled her to advise her husband in his purchases of art objects for their collection. She also served as a director of the Evening News Association, the holding company for the Detroit News. Ellen Warren Scripps Booth died at Cranbrook on January 24, 1948, at the age of 84. The collection deals primarily with the personal life of Ellen Warren Scripps Booth covering the time period from her school days in the early 1870s through her death in 1948. It contains a smattering of documents, including childhood drawings and maps, pages from an autograph book, Daughters of the American Revolution membership papers, journals from trips taken in 1881 and 1927, and a few Cranbrook-related papers. In addition, there is a series of letters from Ellen Booth’s mother, Harriet J. Scripps, as well as a run of Mrs. Booth’s diaries, the majority of which span the years 1880-1910. Finally, there are eight photographs, mostly ferrotypes and ambrotypes, and one small watercolor; all of those able to be identified are of early Scripps or Booth family members.