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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

Saarinen Family Papers

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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

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Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
Barbour, William T. 1
Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
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Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
Booth, Ralph H. 1
Booth, Stephen Farr 1
Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Buckberrough, John 1
Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Cranbrook Art Museum 1
Cranbrook Foundation 1
Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
Cranbrook Press 1
Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
Croze, Harvey 1
Detroit Institute of Arts 1
Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
Dinkeloo, John G. (John Gerard), 1918-1981 1
Frayer, William Alley 1
Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
GM Technical Center 1
Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Irving & Casson 1
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
McEwen, Katherine 1
Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
Öhquist, Johannes, 1861-1949 1
Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
Plumb, Helen 1
Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
Sparre, Louis, 1863-1964 1
Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
Strengell, Gustaf 1
Suomi College 1
University of Michigan 1
Vettraino, Dominick 1
Winter, Jessie 1
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1
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