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Cranbrook Academy of Art Administration Records

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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

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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

Lee A. White Papers

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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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Bertoia, Harry 2
Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
Buckberrough, John 2
Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
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Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
Cranbrook Art Museum 2
Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
Cranbrook Press 2
Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
Detroit Institute of Arts 2
Detroit News (Firm) 2
Frayer, William Alley 2
Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 2
Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 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
Barbour, William T. 1
Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
Booth, Carolyn Farr 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 Church of England Primary School (Cranbrook, Kent, England) 1
Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 1
Croze, Harvey 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
Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
Irving & Casson 1
Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
Maroti, Geza 1
McEwen, Katherine 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, 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
Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
Thomas, Richard 1
Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 1
University of Michigan 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1
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