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Margaret Biggar Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1991-27
Abstract
Margaret Elleanor Biggar was a metalworker and teacher, working out of her own studio in Fairhope, Alabama, for most of her career. From 1929-1931, Biggar assisted renowned English metalsmith, Arthur Nevill Kirk, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art as a paid apprentice, working primarily as the polisher. In July 1939, Biggar and her partner, Eloise Hooker, set up their first “metalcraft” studio in which they taught classes in working silver, copper and brass. Their classes and studio were...
Dates:
1929 - 1973
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 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
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 2
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
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- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
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- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Buckberrough, John 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
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- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
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- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
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- Royal School of Needlework (London, England) 1
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- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926 1
- Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932 1
- Scripps, William E. (William Edmund), 1882-1952 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Simonds, O. C. (Ossian Cole), 1855-1931 1
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- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
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