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Doris Corbett Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2010-08
Abstract
Doris Corbett was a history professor and well-known singer and ballad composer, teaching and performing throughout the United States and Canada. While pursuing her doctorate in history, Ms. Corbett’s research brought her to Cranbrook to study the Arts & Crafts movement, Ellen Scripps Booth, and Nellie Beveridge Gray. The bulk of the collection consists of Ms. Corbett’s research of Ellen Scripps Booth and Nellie Beveridge Gray. Of particular note are the transcripts of the oral histories...
Dates:
Circa 1873-1989
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 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
Marianne Strengell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1991-07
Abstract
Marianne Strengell, daughter of Finnish architect Gustaf Strengell and interior designer Anna Wegelius. Prior to becoming an instructor at Cranbrook in 1937 on Eliel Saarinen's invitation, Strengell held several positions in Scandinavia, designing rugs, textiles and interiors. In 1942, when Loja Saarinen retired, Strengell replaced her as head of the Department of Weaving and Textile Design. She developed a curriculum that emphasized weave structure, versus the more pictorial imagery used by...
Dates:
1620 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1928 - 1995
Wallace MacMahon Mitchell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-21
Abstract
Wallace McMahon Mitchell was born on October 9, 1911 in Detroit, Michigan to Arthur Z. and Edith McMahon Mitchell. He was a respected painter, textile designer, geometric abstractionist, and a Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) graduate student (’35). He later served at the Academy as a painting, and arts and crafts instructor; registrar; director; and then president until his death in 1977. The collection contains the papers of Mitchell and his family during his years at Cranbrook. Included are...
Dates:
1934 - 1980
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- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 4
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 4
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 4
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 4
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 3
- Detroit Institute of Arts 3
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
- Saarinen, Loja 3
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 3
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 2
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- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
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- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
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- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Coir, Mark 1
- Corbett, Doris 1
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
- Cranbrook Press 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- General Motors Corporation 1
- Girard, Alexander 1
- Gray, Nellie Beveridge (circa 1906-) 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
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- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Lindbergh, Anne Morrow, 1906-2001 1
- Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Sailors, Robert David 1
- Sampe, Astrid, 1909-2002 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Scripps, Harriet Josephine Messinger, 1838-1933 1
- Sethna, Nelly H., 1932- 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
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
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