Showing Collections: 1 - 8 of 8
Cranbrook Academy of Art Women's Committee
Collection
Identifier: 1991-01
Abstract
The Cranbrook Academy of Arts Women’s Committee was founded on February 11, 1966 as the social arm of the Friends of the Academy (the Museum’s new membership program). The committee’s purpose was to promote and undertake activities and projects that would further the welfare of the Academy and the Museum. Throughout nearly forty years the committee hosted numerous events, programs, and fundraising projects until disbanded in 2002. The bulk of the collection reflects primarly the Women's...
Dates:
1966 - 2006
Cranbrook Educational Community President's Office: Dr. Lillian H. Bauder Records
Collection
Identifier: 2020-08
Abstract
Lillian Hinckley Bauder (1939- ) was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) from 1984 to 1996. A renowned author, educator and administrator, Dr. Bauder is also a respected community leader and a vigorous advocate for the arts. The collection includes committee meeting materials from the Architectural Advisory Committee, the Governance Committee, the Compensation, and Long-Range Planning Committees as well as the Board of Trustees and the Ad Hoc...
Dates:
1922 - 2006
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 Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-03
Abstract
Cranbrook history dates back to 1904 when George and Ellen Booth purchased land in Bloomfield Hills, MI for their home. The next five decades saw the majority of this land transformed into an educational, artistic, and scientific community. In the early 1970s, a major reorganzition created the Cranbrook Educational Community. More than a century later, in 2021, this Community comprises five program areas: Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Art Academy, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of...
Dates:
circa 1830-; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1970
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
Jack Kausch Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2002-11
Abstract
John W. (Jack) Kausch (1929-2002) was a Cranbrook School ('47) and University of Michigan ('56) alum whose keen interest in photography and film led to a lucrative career as a photographer, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. His first stint as a photographer for Cranbrook’s student newspaper (The Crane), and yearbook (The Brook) was the launchpad for his 34-year long career. Kausch not only owned a photographic studio in Birmingham, MI, he participated in projects organized by the likes of the Jam...
Dates:
1960 - 2001
Edward and Ruth Adler Schnee Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2010-06
Abstract
Ruth Adler Schnee (1923- ) is an internationally recognized award-winning fabric designer, interior designer, entrepreneur, and founding-figure of contemporary textile design in the United States. Her family fled Nazi Germany and settled in Detroit, Michigan where Ruth attended Cass Technical High School ('1942). A Rhode Island School of Design and Cranbrook Academy of Art graduate, she met and married Edward Schnee in 1948, and together they owned and operated Adler/Schnee, a design and...
Dates:
1828 - 2009; Majority of material found within 1942 - 2009
Melvyn Maxwell and Sara Evelyn Smith Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2017-10
Abstract
Melvyn Maxwell Smith (1914-1984) was born on March 12, 1914, in Detroit, Michigan, into an orthodox Jewish family. After graduating from Wayne State University’s College of Education. Smith took a teaching position at Detroit’s Cody High School where he also established the Comet yearbook. He was also part owner of G.G. & S. Realty, which later became G.G. & W. Sara Evelyn Stein (1907-2005), a kindergarten teacher was born in 1907, in South Fork, Pennsylvania into an orthodox Jewish...
Dates:
1908 - 2017
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Architecture 7
- Education 7
- Art -- Study and teaching 4
- Art auctions 3
- Arts 3
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 3
- Exhibitions 3
- Historic house museums 3
- Museums 3
- Newspapers 3
- Scrapbooks 3
- Buildings and grounds 2
- Detroit (Mich.) 2
- Michigan 2
- Performing arts 2
- Recreation 2
- Students 2
- Textile fabrics 2
- Administrative Heads 1
- Aerial photography 1
- Anniversary (50th) 1
- Anthropology 1
- Archaeology 1
- Architecture, Domestic 1
- Art 1
- Art objects 1
- Arts Program 1
- Arts and crafts movement 1
- Astronomy 1
- Athletics 1
- Authors 1
- Beresford Property 1
- Board Members 1
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction 1
- Ceramics 1
- Church architecture 1
- College teaching 1
- Commencement ceremonies 1
- Committees 1
- Cranbrook Music Program 1
- Dance 1
- Decorative arts 1
- Design 1
- Dormitories 1
- Expenditures 1
- Faculty (Education) 1
- Flags 1
- Gardens 1
- Glass painting and staining 1
- Graphic arts 1
- Gymnasiums 1
- High school teaching 1
- Historic buildings 1
- Historic preservation 1
- History 1
- Interior decoration 1
- Libraries 1
- Literature 1
- Metalwork 1
- Painting 1
- Photography 1
- Planetariums 1
- Rare books 1
- Religion 1
- School employees 1
- Schools 1
- Science museums 1
- Sculpture 1
- Sketchbooks & albums 1
- Teachers 1
- Textiles 1
- Theater 1
- Weaving 1
- Women -- Societies and clubs 1 ∧ less
- Language
- German 1
- Names
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 7
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 4
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 4
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 3
- Cranbrook Art Museum 3
- Cranbrook Foundation 3
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 2
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
- Cranbrook Press 2
- Cranbrook Schools 2
- Croze, Harvey 2
- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- McEwen, Katherine 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Winter, Jessie 2
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
- Askew, June 1
- Askew, Richard G. 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Bauder, Lillian 1
- Bertoia, Harry 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Buckberrough, John 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Cantor, Allen 1
- Coir, Mark 1
- Cooper, Harriet 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- DeSalle, Peggy 1
- Denio, John P. 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eschmann, Jean 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- Fuller, Donald 1
- General Motors Corporation 1
- Hall, Michael 1
- Hance, G. W. (George W.) 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kausch, Jack 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- Martin, Dan M. 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Munroe, Joseph 1
- Packard, James 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Schnee, Edward 1
- Schnee, Ruth Adler, 1923- 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Smith, Melvyn Maxwell 1
- Smith, Sara, 1907-2005 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- University of Michigan 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- Wayne State University 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more