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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 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
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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 2
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
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- Detroit News (Firm) 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, John McLaughlin 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Buckberrough, John 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 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
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 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, Marianne, 1909- 1
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