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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 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
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Corbett, Doris 1
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Scripps, Harriet Josephine Messinger, 1838-1933 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- University of Michigan 1
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- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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