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Cranbrook Educational Community Publications
Collection
Identifier: 1995-13
Abstract
Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) is comprised of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research, Cranbrook House & Gardens, Cranbrook Institute of Science, Cranbrook Schools, and Horizons-Upward Bound. CEC Publications comprises serials produced by the CEC from various departments and with a number of different target audiences. Serials range from staff newsletters to community magazines featuring a variety of topics covering all...
Dates:
1969 - 2005
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 Institute of Science Director’s Office Records
Collection
Identifier: 1990-31
Abstract
Cranbrook Institute of Science is a nationally recognized natural history and science museum primarily serving Michigan and the Great Lakes region. It seeks to interest and educate people of all ages about nature, science and humankind through its exhibits, education, collection, research, and public programs. The Institute is a division of Cranbrook Educational Community, beginning, as do all Cranbrook institutions, with the vision and generosity of George Gough Booth. Originally...
Dates:
1920 - 1990
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
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
The Eccentric Newspaper Records
Collection
Identifier: 2009-02
Abstract
George H. Mitchell and Almeron Whitehead first published The Birmingham Eccentric on 2 May 1878 in Birmingham, Michigan. The four-page issue was a combination of short personal announcements and advertisements. Although both partners wrote for their paper, Whitehead took on the bulk of the writing duties. Under their leadership the paper thrived. In 1912, the two dissolved their partnership as friends leaving Mitchell as the sole publisher. In July 1919, Fred E. Van Black, a linotype...
Dates:
1930 - 2000
Helen McIlroy Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2023-08
Abstract
Helen McIlroy first came to Cranbrook as a temporary Brookside School employee. From 1931 until her retirement she worked permanently for the Cranbrook Foundation, as the assistant to George Booth and, later, as Henry Scripps Booth's secretary. In these roles, she communicated and worked with all divisions and staff becoming a great source of information. This small collection contains a variety of record types that reflect McIlroy's position at Cranbrook and include various details...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1933 - 1979; 1953 - 1977
Richard P. Raseman Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1979-03
Abstract
The collection comprises of materials collected by Richard Perrien Raseman (1896-1976), architect, Executive Secretary, and Vice President of the Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1932-1943. During his tenure at Cranbrook he was responsible for the administration of the Academy and helped to push the establishment of the Academy as an independent and degree awarding institution. The collection includes documents associated with repair and construction projects on Cranbrook’s campus between 1934...
Dates:
1934 - 1956; Majority of material found within 1934 - 1942
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- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 16
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 15
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 13
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 12
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 12
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- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 10
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 10
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 9
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 8
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 7
- Buckberrough, John 6
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 6
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 6
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 6
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 5
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 5
- Frayer, William Alley 5
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 5
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 5
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 5
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 5
- Cranbrook Art Museum 4
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- Detroit Institute of Arts 4
- Detroit News (Firm) 4
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 4
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 4
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 4
- Saarinen, Loja 4
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 4
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 4
- University of Michigan 4
- Vettraino, Dominick 4
- Winter, Jessie 4
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 3
- Bertoia, Harry 3
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 3
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 3
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 3
- Maroti, Geza 3
- McEwen, Katherine 3
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 3
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 3
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 3
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 3
- White, Lee A., 1886- 3
- Barbour, William T. 2
- Bauder, Lillian 2
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 2
- Booth, Ralph H. 2
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 2
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 2
- Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 2
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- Croze, Harvey 2
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Eschmann, Jean 2
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 2
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 2
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 2
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 2
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- Thomas, Richard 2
- Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 2
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
- Appleman, Daniel E. (1931-1998) 1
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- Askew, Richard G. 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
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- Booth, John McLaughlin 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Bromley, Kate Thompson 1
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- Cain, Stanley A. (Stanley Adair), 1902-1995 1
- Cantor, Allen 1
- Carmel, James H., 1919-2016 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.). Episcopal Churchwomen 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
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