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Doris Corbett Papers

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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

Carl Magnusson Collection of Astrid Sampe Correspondence

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Identifier: 2008-09
Abstract Astrid Sampe studied at the Higher Industrial Art School of Stockholm and as an exchange student at the Royal Academy of Art in London. Her career spanned many decades starting in 1935, and encompassed being head of Nordiska Kompaniet (NK), being appointed "Royal Designer, Hon.RDI of the Royal Society of Arts and, in 1951, wove the first fiberglass fabrics. Eero Saarinen and Astrid Sampe had a personal relationship in the early 1950s, as documented in his correspondence to her. These letters...
Dates: 1951 - 1956

Marianne Strengell Papers

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Identifier: 1991-07
Abstract Marianne Strengell, daughter of Finnish architect Gustaf Strengell and interior designer Anna Wegelius. Prior to becoming an instructor at Cranbrook in 1937 on Eliel Saarinen's invitation, Strengell held several positions in Scandinavia, designing rugs, textiles and interiors. In 1942, when Loja Saarinen retired, Strengell replaced her as head of the Department of Weaving and Textile Design. She developed a curriculum that emphasized weave structure, versus the more pictorial imagery used by...
Dates: 1620 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1995

Saarinen Family Papers

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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

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Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 2
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Bertoia, Harry 3
Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 3
Cranbrook Academy of Art 3
GM Technical Center 3
Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
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Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 3
Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 3
Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
Eames, Charles 2
Knoll Associates, Inc. 2
Maroti, Geza 2
Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
Sampe, Astrid, 1909-2002 2
Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
Strengell, Gustaf 2
Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
Coir, Mark 1
Corbett, Doris 1
Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Cranbrook Institute of Science 1
Croze, Harvey 1
Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
Eames, Ray 1
Ford Motor Company 1
Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
General Motors Corporation 1
Gray, Nellie Beveridge (circa 1906-) 1
Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
Hammarstrom, Olav 1
Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Knoll, Hans, 1914-1955 1
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
Sailors, Robert David 1
Scripps, Harriet Josephine Messinger, 1838-1933 1
Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
Sethna, Nelly H., 1932- 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
Slade, Roy 1
Sparre, Louis, 1863-1964 1
Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
Suomi College 1
Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
Swanson, Ronald 1
University of Michigan 1
Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1
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