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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 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
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
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
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 3
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 3
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 3
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- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
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- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 2
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- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 2
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- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
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- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
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- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
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- Detroit Institute of Arts 1
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- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
- Eastern Michigan University 1
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- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
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- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Michigan State University 1
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- Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
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- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926 1
- Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Scripps, William E. (William Edmund), 1882-1952 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Simonds, O. C. (Ossian Cole), 1855-1931 1
- Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Sparre, Louis, 1863-1964 1
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
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- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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