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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
Cranbrook Lower School Brookside Records
Collection
Identifier: 2002-04
Abstract
After various attempts at a school for young children in the area, the Bloomfield Hills School opened in 1922, occupying the Meeting House owned and built by George G. Booth at Lone Pine and Cranbrook Roads. With subsequent building additions by Booth and his son Henry Scripps Booth, the student body likewise grew from eight students in its first year to 101 by 1929. A private co-ed school for students in grades K-6, the school officially became Brookside School Cranbrook in 1930. Undergoing...
Dates:
1922 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1999
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
Lee A. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1979-02
Abstract
Lee A White was a journalist, working for the Detroit News from 1911 until his retirement in 1952, except between 1914-1917, when he was an associate professor and chairman of the journalism department at the University of Washington. He developed a close relationship with George G. Booth, serving as his Editorial Secretary and, from 1936, he also served as Chief Librarian for the newspaper, and became its first Director of Public Relations. He served as Director of Cranbrook School for 20...
Dates:
1926 - 1958
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
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- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 3
- Winter, Jessie 3
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
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- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Frayer, William Alley 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- McEwen, Katherine 2
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 2
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
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- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Cranbrook Church of England Primary School (Cranbrook, Kent, England) 1
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
- Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 1
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- Croze, Harvey 1
- Curtis, Roswell G. 1
- Denio, John P. 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Eames, Ray 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Eschmann, Jean 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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