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Cranbrook School Records
Collection
Identifier: 1979-06
Abstract
Cranbrook School was established by a Trust Indenture on 15 January 1926 to, “provide for the moral and religious education of the youth committed to its care,” under the supervision of three governing boards: the Board of Directors, the Advisory Board, and the Board of Trustees. Originally conceived as a Church school of Christ Church Cranbrook by September of 1924, George Booth had decided that the school should have a separate site to allow for expansion. When it opened on September 19,...
Dates:
1927 - 1985
C. Oliver LaGrone Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1997-01
Abstract
Clarence Oliver LaGrone was the first African-American student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he studied with Carl Milles starting in the fall of 1941. Upon completing his studies at Cranbrook, Oliver worked a variety of jobs in order to support his family, including at the Ford Rouge Plant. During the McCarthy era, when Oliver refused to inform on his “communist” contacts in the art world, particularly Paul Robeson, he lost his UAW job. He returned to school, earning the equivalent...
Dates:
1942 - 1995
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 1
- Corkery, Christopher 1
- Coulter, Bruce 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Emrich, Richard S. M. (Richard Stanley Merrill), 1910- 1
- Hoey, Harry D. (1904-1995) 1
- LaGrone, Oliver, 1906- 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Salas, Samuel A. 1
- Stabler, W. Brooke 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Unitarian Church of Harrisburg 1
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