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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 P.M. Records
Collection
Identifier: 1999-12
Abstract
Cranbrook P.M., a continuing education and outreach program, was founded in 1973 by the Cranbrook School Mother’s Council. The program, which became defunct by the mid-1990s offered a series of evening classes, lectures, seminars, workshops, tours, etc. focusing on the arts, languages, math, music, sports, and the sciences. The collection primarily focuses on the program's curricula, however there is a small amount of material associated with its administrative functions.
Dates:
1975 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1991 - 1993
Cranbrook Press and Photo Department Records
Collection
Identifier: 1990-42
Abstract
In 1900, George Gough Booth established the Cranbrook Press at the Detroit Evening News building. The enterprise lasted only two years, but it was later revived at Cranbrook in 1930. The Print Shop was headed by Edward Alonzo Miller, a well-known typographer, and Jean Eschmann, a bookbinder of high repute, and already employed by Booth, provided fine leather bindings. The first volume produced by Miller and Eschmann was a service book for the Festival of Gifts at Cranbrook Church. The...
Dates:
1929 - 1975
Cranbrook School Kent, England Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1997-16
Abstract
The father of George G. Booth, founder of Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, MI) emigrated from Cranbrook, Kent. Cranbrook School, Kent is located about 40 miles from London and for over 450 years the school has occupied the same site and has grown from the original building to its present 70 acres in the town of Cranbrook. This small artificial collection, contains information about Cranbrook School's namesake in England, primarily containing publications with a small amount of correspondence.
Dates:
1931 - 1982
Cranbrook School Sydney, Australia Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1997-17
Abstract
A boys school in Sydney, Australia, sharing the same name as Cranbrook School in Blooomfield Hills, MI, was established in 1918. The school was originally organized as an Anglican boarding and day school, and was governed by a School Council consisting of eighteen clergy and laymen. Junior facilities expanded with the establishment of two kindergartens (or Pre-schools) in 1944 at St Michael's Church Hall, Vaucluse and St Mark's Church Hall, Darling Point. This small artificial collection...
Dates:
1929 - 1982
Cranbrook Schools Board of Trustees/Governors Records
Collection
Identifier: 1991-10
Abstract
The collection pertains to the administrative functions of the Board of Trustees for Cranbrook Schools, governing Brookside, Cranbrook, and Kingswood Schools, and which exsited for three years (1970-1973). When Cranbrook was reorganized as the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC), with a unified Board of Trustees, the Schools' board was renamed the Cranbrook Schools Board of Governors. It began serving in an advisory capacity to the Cranbrook Schools Division. The collection comprises of...
Dates:
1966 - 1999
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
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
Kingswood School Records
Collection
Identifier: 1980-01
Abstract
Kingswood School Cranbrook was a day and boarding school for girls beginning with the seventh grade and continuing through the twelfth grade. Kingswood School was established through a deed of Trust executed on July 24, 1930, between the Cranbrook Foundation and a Board of Trustees consisting of William T. Barbour, Ralph Stone, Luman W. Goodenough, Alvan Macauley, Clarence H. Booth, James Inglis, and Sidney D. Waldon. The Board selected Gladys Turnbach, of Miss Hall’s School in Pittsfield,...
Dates:
1930 - 1985
Cranbrook Writers’ Guild Records
Collection
Identifier: 1995-02
Abstract
The Cranbrook Writers' Guild (CWG) was a non-profit organization that operated between 1970 and 2008. The organization's focus was continuing the four-day Cranbrook Writers' Conference which was a special project of the literature committee of the Michigan State Council for the Arts. The conference sponsored student writers from Michigan colleges and comprised of workshops and seminars led by established professional writers. The materials within the collection cover a range of...
Dates:
1967 - 2008; Majority of material found within 1980 - 1993
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- Cranbrook Academy of Art 57
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 42
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 33
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 31
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 30
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 27
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 26
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 26
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 26
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 26
- Cranbrook Foundation 22
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 20
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 20
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 17
- University of Michigan 17
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 16
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 14
- Cranbrook Art Museum 14
- Saarinen, Loja 13
- Bertoia, Harry 12
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 12
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 12
- Detroit Institute of Arts 11
- Eames, Charles 11
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 11
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 11
- Slade, Roy 11
- Detroit News (Firm) 10
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 10
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 10
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 10
- GM Technical Center 9
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 9
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 9
- Bauder, Lillian 8
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 8
- Cranbrook Press 8
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 8
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 8
- Coir, Mark 7
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 7
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 7
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 7
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 7
- Vettraino, Dominick 7
- Buckberrough, John 6
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 6
- Croze, Harvey 6
- Ford Motor Company 6
- Hammarstrom, Olav 6
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 6
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 6
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 6
- Maroti, Geza 6
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 6
- Winter, Jessie 6
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 6
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 5
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 5
- Booth, Ralph H. 5
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 5
- Frayer, William Alley 5
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 5
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5
- White, Lee A., 1886- 5
- Yale University 5
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 4
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 4
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 4
- Cranbrook Schools 4
- Eames, Ray 4
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 4
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 4
- General Motors Corporation 4
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 4
- Gray, Nellie Beveridge (circa 1906-) 4
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 4
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 4
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 4
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 4
- Scripps, Harriet Josephine Messinger, 1838-1933 4
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 4
- Thomas, Richard 4
- Barbour, William T. 3
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 3
- Coulter, Bruce 3
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 3
- Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 3
- Eastern Michigan University 3
- Girard, Alexander 3
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 3
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 3
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 3
- Knodel, Gerhardt 3
- Knoll, Hans, 1914-1955 3
- Korab, Balthazar 3
- Lawrence Technological University 3
- Martin, Dan M. 3
- McCoy, Katherine, 1945- 3
- McCoy, Michael (1944) 3 ∧ less
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