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James Scripps and John McLaughlin Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-14
Abstract
James Scripps Booth, an automobile designer, artist, and philosopher was the eldest son of George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth born May 31, 1888, in the Trumbull Avenue home of his grandfather James Edmund Scripps, founder and publisher of the Detroit Evening News. He built a prototype of the Bi-Autogo and in 1913 Booth, uncle William J. Scripps and John Batterman formed the Scripps-Booth Cyclecar Company, manufacturers of small, belt-driven vehicles, the JB Rocket and the Packet....
Dates:
1907 - 1980
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 Academy of Art Women's Committee
Collection
Identifier: 1991-01
Abstract
The Cranbrook Academy of Arts Women’s Committee was founded on February 11, 1966 as the social arm of the Friends of the Academy (the Museum’s new membership program). The committee’s purpose was to promote and undertake activities and projects that would further the welfare of the Academy and the Museum. Throughout nearly forty years the committee hosted numerous events, programs, and fundraising projects until disbanded in 2002. The bulk of the collection reflects primarly the Women's...
Dates:
1966 - 2006
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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 2
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
- Cranbrook Foundation 2
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Bertoia, Harry 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, John McLaughlin 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 1
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- DeSalle, Peggy 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
- Hall, Michael 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- University of Michigan 1
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- White, Lee A., 1886- 1 ∧ less
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