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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
Cranbrook Academy of Art Administration Records
Collection
Identifier: 1981-09
Abstract
In 1927 George G. Booth established the Cranbrook Academy of Art as an educational environment where students could come and learn from master artists in residence. The Academy functioned as a department under the Cranbrook Foundation and included painting, architecture, sculpture, ceramics and decorative design. The first Academy students were taken in early 1930. Eliel Saarinen was the first President (1932-1946). In 1942, with the opening of the Museum and Library, the Academy became an...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1942 - 1973
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
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
Walter P. Nickell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1998-28
Abstract
Walter Prine Nickell was invited to join Cranbrook Institute of Science as an Assistant in Education in 1935 by four trustees who had seen one of his exhibits and heard him lecture. He later became an Associate Naturalist. He published 75 papers on birds, and traveled extensively, taking motion and still photography for field studies on birds, caves, rocks, minerals, and fossils in 47 states, 5 Canadian Provinces, Mexico and British Honduras. He was granted the honorary degree, Doctor of...
Dates:
1938 - 1988
Saarinen Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-08
Abstract
Finnish architect, Gottlieb Eliel Saarinen was born August 20, 1873. In 1904 Saarinen married artist Minna Carolina Mathilde Louise “Loja” Gesellius (b. 1879). The Saarinen's daughter Eeva Lisa “Pipsan” was born in Helsingfors, Finland on 31 March 1905 and their son Eero was born in Kyrkslaett, Finland on 20 August 1910. In 1923 Eliel met the Detroit newspaper magnate George Gough Booth, who was to become his chief patron in America. At Booth’s invitation, Saarinen moved his practice to...
Dates:
1880 - 1989
Maja Schjolin Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1982-10
Abstract
In 1951, Maija and her husband Hans moved to a three acre property in Birmingham, Michigan three miles southeast of Cranbrook. Over the course of thirty years, Maja created the largest and most diverse wild plant garden in Michigan, with over 300 varieties of plants. Her wildflower garden was widely visited attended by garden enthusiasts and tour groups, and often attracted publicity in the local press. She developed a close friendship with botanist James R. Wells of Cranbrook Institute of...
Dates:
1982 - 1989
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 5
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 5
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 5
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 4
- Cranbrook Foundation 4
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 4
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 4
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 4
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 4
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 3
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 3
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 3
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- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 3
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 3
- Saarinen, Loja 3
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 3
- University of Michigan 3
- Barbour, William T. 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Booth, Ralph H. 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
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- Cranbrook Press 2
- Detroit News (Firm) 2
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- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 2
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 2
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 2
- Strengell, Gustaf 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bauder, Lillian 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Cram and Ferguson 1
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
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- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
- Kausch, Jack 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Nickell, Walter P. 1
- Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
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