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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 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 (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 4
- Cranbrook Foundation 4
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 4
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 3
- Detroit Institute of Arts 3
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 3
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 3
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 3
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 3
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 3
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 3
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 2
- Bertoia, Harry 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 2
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Press 2
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Detroit News (Firm) 2
- Eames, Charles 2
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 2
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Saarinen, Loja 2
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 2
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 2
- University of Michigan 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Bonawit, Owen G. 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, John McLaughlin 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 1
- Cranbrook Architectural Office 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- GM Technical Center 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Hammarstrom, Olav 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
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 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
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Swanson Associates 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
- Winter, Jessie 1
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1 ∧ less
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