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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 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
S. Glen Paulsen Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1991-25
Abstract
Serenus Glen Paulsen attended the University of Illinois, College of Fine and Applied Art from 1938 to 1942, then spent three years in the military under commanding officer, Marshall Fredericks (a sculptor). After the war, he received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Fine Arts, followed by a Master of Architecture and City Planning from the Royal Academy of Arts, Stockholm, Sweden. Paulsen worked for several firms, including Eero Saarinen and...
Dates:
1940 - 1990
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 4
- Cranbrook Foundation 4
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 4
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 4
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 4
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 4
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Detroit Institute of Arts 3
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 3
- Saarinen, Loja 3
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 3
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 3
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 3
- University of Michigan 3
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Booth, Ralph H. 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 Press 2
- Detroit News (Firm) 2
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Frayer, William Alley 2
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 2
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 2
- Maroti, Geza 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 2
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 2
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 2
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bonawit, Owen G. 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Cram and Ferguson 1
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 1
- Cranbrook Architectural Office 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Edw. F. Caldwell & Co. 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ehrich Galleries 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 1
- Herter, Albert, 1871-1950 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Royal School of Needlework (London, England) 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926 1 ∧ less
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