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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
Henry Scripps Booth and Carolyn Farr Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1982-05
Abstract
Henry Scripps Booth and Carolyn Farr Booth, lovers of art, music, and travel, were lifelong advocates of Cranbrook, dedicated to its development, both physically and organizationally. Henry (1897-1988) was the fourth child of the founders of Cranbrook, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. Carolyn (1902-1984) was the daughter of Merton E. Farr, president of the American Shipbuilding Company. While an architecture student at the University of Michigan, Henry helped his father design the...
Dates:
1897 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1988
Saarinen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-08
Abstract
Finnish architect, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was born August 20, 1873. In 1904 Saarinen married artist Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise “Loja” Gesellius (b. 1879). The Saarinen's daughter Eeva Lisa “Pipsan” was born in Helsingfors, Finland on 31 March 1905 and their son Eero was born in Kyrkslaett, Finland on 20 August 1910. In 1923 Eliel met the Detroit newspaper magnate George Gough Booth, who was to become his chief patron in America. At Booth’s invitation, Saarinen moved his practice to...
Dates:
1880 - 1989
J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-01
Abstract
Jons Robert (Bob) Ferdinand Swanson (1900-1981) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture in 1924, where he had and become friends with Henry Scripps Booth. In 1924, they established the architectural firm, Swanson and Booth. In 1927, the partnership dissolved and Bob established his own practice. Eva Lisa (Pipsan) Saarinen (1905-1979), daughter of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at University of Helskini. She married Bob in 1926...
Dates:
1900 - 1983
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- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926 1
- Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 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, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
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