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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 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 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
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- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 2
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
- Saarinen, Loja 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 2
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bonawit, Owen G. 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cranbrook Press 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Swanson Associates 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- University of Michigan 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
- Winter, Jessie 1
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1 ∧ less
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