Showing Collections: 1 - 4 of 4
Cranbrook Foundation Executive Secretary: William Alley Frayer Records
Collection
Identifier: 1980-04
Abstract
William Alley Frayer had over a thirty-year careeer as a historian, teaching at both Cornell University and University of Michigan before Cranbrook Board of Trustees hired him as Executive Secretary of the Foundation in 1935. Frayer worked closely with chairman George Booth, daily discussing matters of general Cranbrook concern. Upon Frayer's retirement in 1938, Booth and Frayer decided to close the office of Executive Secretary. Frayer returned to Ann Arbor and died June 29, 1946, at the...
Dates:
1935 - 1938
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
Cranbrook Lower School Brookside Records
Collection
Identifier: 2002-04
Abstract
After various attempts at a school for young children in the area, the Bloomfield Hills School opened in 1922, occupying the Meeting House owned and built by George G. Booth at Lone Pine and Cranbrook Roads. With subsequent building additions by Booth and his son Henry Scripps Booth, the student body likewise grew from eight students in its first year to 101 by 1929. A private co-ed school for students in grades K-6, the school officially became Brookside School Cranbrook in 1930. Undergoing...
Dates:
1922 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1923 - 1999
Lee A. White Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1979-02
Abstract
Lee A White was a journalist, working for the Detroit News from 1911 until his retirement in 1952, except between 1914-1917, when he was an associate professor and chairman of the journalism department at the University of Washington. He developed a close relationship with George G. Booth, serving as his Editorial Secretary and, from 1936, he also served as Chief Librarian for the newspaper, and became its first Director of Public Relations. He served as Director of Cranbrook School for 20...
Dates:
1926 - 1958
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Art -- Study and teaching 3
- Education 3
- Photographs 3
- Architecture 2
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 2
- Public relations 2
- Religion 2
- Science museums 2
- Architecture, Domestic 1
- Art auctions 1
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction 1
- Buildings and grounds 1
- Detroit (Mich.) 1
- Expenditures 1
- Flags 1
- Glass painting and staining 1
- Gymnasiums 1
- Housing 1
- Museums 1
- Newspapers 1
- Performing arts 1
- Rare books 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Textiles 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 3
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 3
- Frayer, William Alley 3
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 3
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 3
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 3
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 3
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
- Cranbrook Press 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- McEwen, Katherine 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Bertoia, Harry 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Coir, Mark 1
- Cranbrook Art Museum 1
- Cranbrook Church of England Primary School (Cranbrook, Kent, England) 1
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 1
- Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 1
- Cranbrook Schools 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Curtis, Roswell G. 1
- Denio, John P. 1
- Detroit Institute of Arts 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Eschmann, Jean 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 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
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more