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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 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 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 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
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
Lee A. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1979-02
Abstract
Lee A White was a journalist, working for the Detroit News from 1911 until his retirement in 1952, except between 1914-1917, when he was an associate professor and chairman of the journalism department at the University of Washington. He developed a close relationship with George G. Booth, serving as his Editorial Secretary and, from 1936, he also served as Chief Librarian for the newspaper, and became its first Director of Public Relations. He served as Director of Cranbrook School for 20...
Dates:
1926 - 1958
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- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 6
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 5
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 5
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 4
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 4
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- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 4
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 4
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 4
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 4
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 3
- Buckberrough, John 3
- Frayer, William Alley 3
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
- Vettraino, Dominick 3
- Barbour, William T. 2
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Cranbrook Press 2
- Croze, Harvey 2
- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
- Detroit News (Firm) 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 2
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- White, Lee A., 1886- 2
- Winter, Jessie 2
- Askew, June 1
- Askew, Richard G. 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bauder, Lillian 1
- Birmingham Eccentric (Newspaper) 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Cantor, Allen 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cooper, Harriet 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research 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
- Cranbrook Schools 1
- Curtis, Roswell G. 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Fuller, Donald 1
- Hance, G. W. (George W.) 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kausch, Jack 1
- Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
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- McEwen, Katherine 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
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- Packard, James 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Stump, M. Pamela 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 1
- University of Michigan 1
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