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George Gough Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-01
Abstract
The collection documents the life and work of George Gough Booth, a renowned advocate of the arts, and a great philanthropist whose crowning achievement was the establishment of Cranbrook Educational Community. He was also one of the nation's leading newspapermen in the first half of this century. It includes biographical materials including legal documents, travel itineraries, talks and writings, and the financial and business records of the Cranbrook Press. It documents his working life...
Dates:
1864 - 1949
Henry Scripps Booth and Carolyn Farr Booth Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1982-05
Abstract
Henry Scripps Booth and Carolyn Farr Booth, lovers of art, music, and travel, were lifelong advocates of Cranbrook, dedicated to its development, both physically and organizationally. Henry (1897-1988) was the fourth child of the founders of Cranbrook, George Gough Booth and Ellen Scripps Booth. Carolyn (1902-1984) was the daughter of Merton E. Farr, president of the American Shipbuilding Company. While an architecture student at the University of Michigan, Henry helped his father design the...
Dates:
1897 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1909 - 1988
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 Press and Photo Department Records
Collection
Identifier: 1990-42
Abstract
In 1900, George Gough Booth established the Cranbrook Press at the Detroit Evening News building. The enterprise lasted only two years, but it was later revived at Cranbrook in 1930. The Print Shop was headed by Edward Alonzo Miller, a well-known typographer, and Jean Eschmann, a bookbinder of high repute, and already employed by Booth, provided fine leather bindings. The first volume produced by Miller and Eschmann was a service book for the Festival of Gifts at Cranbrook Church. The...
Dates:
1929 - 1975
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
J. Robert F. and Pipsan Saarinen Swanson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-01
Abstract
Jons Robert (Bob) Ferdinand Swanson (1900-1981) graduated from the University of Michigan School of Architecture in 1924, where he had and become friends with Henry Scripps Booth. In 1924, they established the architectural firm, Swanson and Booth. In 1927, the partnership dissolved and Bob established his own practice. Eva Lisa (Pipsan) Saarinen (1905-1979), daughter of Eliel and Loja Saarinen, studied weaving, ceramics, and fabric design at University of Helskini. She married Bob in 1926...
Dates:
1900 - 1983
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 4
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 4
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 4
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 4
- Cranbrook Foundation 3
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 3
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 3
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Cram, Ralph Adams, 1963-1942 2
- Cranbrook Art Museum 2
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- Detroit Institute of Arts 2
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- Eames, Charles 2
- Ford Motor Company 2
- GM Technical Center 2
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 2
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 2
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Saarinen, Loja 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 2
- White, Lee A., 1886- 2
- American Institute of Architects 1
- American Institute of Decorators 1
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bertoia, Harry 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
- Cram and Ferguson 1
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- Cranbrook Architectural Office 1
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Eastern Michigan University 1
- Edw. F. Caldwell & Co. 1
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 1
- Ehrich Galleries 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Frayer, William Alley 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
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- Herter, Albert, 1871-1950 1
- Hvitträsk (Museum) 1
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- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Michigan State University 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Oakland Community College 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Royal School of Needlework (London, England) 1
- Scripps, E. W. (Edward Willis), 1854-1926 1
- Scripps, Ellen Browning, 1836-1932 1
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 1
- Scripps, William E. (William Edmund), 1882-1952 1
- Sibelius, Jean, 1865-1957 1
- Simonds, O. C. (Ossian Cole), 1855-1931 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
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