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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
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
Wallace MacMahon Mitchell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-21
Abstract
Wallace McMahon Mitchell was born on October 9, 1911 in Detroit, Michigan to Arthur Z. and Edith McMahon Mitchell. He was a respected painter, textile designer, geometric abstractionist, and a Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) graduate student (’35). He later served at the Academy as a painting, and arts and crafts instructor; registrar; director; and then president until his death in 1977. The collection contains the papers of Mitchell and his family during his years at Cranbrook. Included are...
Dates:
1934 - 1980
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- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 2
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 2
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Corbett, Doris 1
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook Foundation 1
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Detroit Institute of Arts 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Scripps, Harriet Josephine Messinger, 1838-1933 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- University of Michigan 1
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