Showing Collections: 1 - 10 of 11
George Gough Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-01
Abstract
The collection documents the life and work of George Gough Booth, a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist whose crowning achievement was the establishment of Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century. It includes biographical materials including legal documents, travel itineraries, talks and writings, and the financial and business records of the Cranbrook Press. It documents his working life...
Dates:
1864 - 1949
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
Cranbrook Architectural Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1989-01
Abstract
Records of the Cranbrook Architectural Office which was responsible for the supervision, inspection, approval and acceptance of all construction work at Cranbrook, beginning with Eliel Saarinen's leadership through its closure in the 1980s. The materials reflect the planning and building phases of the Brookside School (BS), Christ Church Cranbrook (CCC), Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA), Cranbrook House, Cranbrook Institute of Science (CIS), Cranbrook School (CS), Kingswood School (KS), and...
Dates:
1925 - 1987
Cranbrook Educational Community President’s Office: Dr. Dan M. Martin Records
Collection
Identifier: 1991-16
Abstract
This collection contains materials surrounding the career of Dr. Dan M. Martin, second president of the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) from 1980 to 1984. The materials primarily comprise correspondence documenting CEC governance and activities, memoranda, speeches, and executive searches. Also included are files pertaining to Dr. Martin’s inaugural celebration.
Dates:
1980 - 1984
Cranbrook Educational Community Vice President of Finance and Administration: George Herbst Records
Collection
Identifier: 1992-21
Abstract
George Herbst served as Vice President of Finance and Administration of Cranbrook Educational Community between 1986 and 1996. Herbst’s administrative duties included managing capital projects, finances, legal actions, and human relations. During his term, Herbst also oversaw numerous projects including restoration or construction initiatives for the Greek Theatre, Kingswood School, Cranbrook House, the Henry Booth Studio, and the DeSalle Auditorium. He was also involved in the acquisition...
Dates:
1966 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1984 - 1992
Cranbrook Foundation Executive Secretary: William Alley Frayer Records
Collection
Identifier: 1980-04
Abstract
William Alley Frayer had over a thirty-year careeer as a historian, teaching at both Cornell University and University of Michigan before Cranbrook Board of Trustees hired him as Executive Secretary of the Foundation in 1935. Frayer worked closely with chairman George Booth, daily discussing matters of general Cranbrook concern. Upon Frayer's retirement in 1938, Booth and Frayer decided to close the office of Executive Secretary. Frayer returned to Ann Arbor and died June 29, 1946, at the...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
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 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
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
J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-01
Abstract
Jons Robert (Bob) Ferdinand Swanson (1900-1981) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture in 1924, where he had and become friends with Henry Scripps Booth. In 1924, they established the architectural firm, Swanson and Booth. In 1927, the partnership dissolved and Bob established his own practice. Eva Lisa (Pipsan) Saarinen (1905-1979), daughter of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at University of Helskini. She married Bob in 1926...
Dates:
1900 - 1983
Filtered By
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Photographs 4
- Science museums 4
- Architecture 3
- Architecture, Domestic 3
- Art -- Study and teaching 3
- Education 3
- Public relations 3
- Sculpture 3
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 2
- Church architecture 2
- Fund raising 2
- Glass painting and staining 2
- Museums 2
- Performing arts 2
- Religion 2
- Textile fabrics 2
- Textiles 2
- Acquisition of property 1
- Art auctions 1
- Arts and crafts movement 1
- Ashtrays 1
- Bookbinding 1
- Candelabra 1
- Candlesticks 1
- Carillons 1
- Ceramics 1
- Chair design 1
- Charles Scribners Sons Building (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Composition (Music) 1
- Cranbrook (Kent, England) 1
- Design 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Flatware 1
- Furniture design 1
- Historic buildings 1
- Historic preservation 1
- Housing 1
- Interior decoration 1
- Landscapes 1
- Mexico 1
- Michigan 1
- Minerals 1
- Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century 1
- Native Americans 1
- Newspapers 1
- Newspapers -- Ownership 1
- Nursing 1
- Oral history 1
- Piano 1
- Pottery 1
- Prohibition 1
- Schools 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Weaving 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 8
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 8
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 8
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 7
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 7
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 6
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 6
- Cranbrook Foundation 6
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 6
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 5
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 5
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 5
- Frayer, William Alley 5
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 5
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 5
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 5
- Saarinen, Loja 5
- Buckberrough, John 4
- Cranbrook Press 4
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 4
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 4
- Winter, Jessie 4
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 3
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 3
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 3
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 3
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 3
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 3
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 3
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 3
- University of Michigan 3
- Barbour, William T. 2
- Bauder, Lillian 2
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, Ralph H. 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
- Croze, Harvey 2
- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Detroit News (Firm) 2
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 2
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 2
- Ford Motor Company 2
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 2
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 2
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 2
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 2
- Maroti, Geza 2
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 2
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 2
- Swanson Associates 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- White, Lee A., 1886- 2
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
- American Institute of Architects 1
- American Institute of Decorators 1
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Blanchard, James J., 1942- 1
- Bonawit, Owen G. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Corbett, Doris 1
- Cram and Ferguson 1
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Cranbrook Church of England Primary School (Cranbrook, Kent, England) 1
- Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 1
- Curtis, Roswell G. 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Eastern Michigan University 1
- Edw. F. Caldwell & Co. 1
- Ehrich Galleries 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum 1
- Herter, Albert, 1871-1950 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Kausch, Jack 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more