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Margaret Biggar Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1991-27
Abstract
Margaret Elleanor Biggar was a metalworker and teacher, working out of her own studio in Fairhope, Alabama, for most of her career. From 1929-1931, Biggar assisted renowned English metalsmith, Arthur Nevill Kirk, at the Cranbrook Academy of Art as a paid apprentice, working primarily as the polisher. In July 1939, Biggar and her partner, Eloise Hooker, set up their first “metalcraft” studio in which they taught classes in working silver, copper and brass. Their classes and studio were...
Dates:
1929 - 1973
Kate Thompson Bromley Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1981-04
Abstract
Kate Agnes Thompson married Frank Latham Bromley on May 2, 1900, in Detroit. They moved to Bloomfield Hills and, as neighbors, became ensconced in the Cranbrook community. Kate’s personal interests centered in the arts, and she became very good friends with Carl and Olga Milles, as well as with other Cranbrook personalities. The collection consists of photocopies of excerpts from the diaries of Kate Thompson Bromley. The diary entries document Bromley’s association with Cranbrook...
Dates:
1916 - 1955
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
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- Bertoia, Harry 1
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 1
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Bromley, Kate Thompson 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Cranbrook Foundation 1
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Eschmann, Jean 1
- Ford Motor Company 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Gray, Nellie Beveridge (circa 1906-) 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Saarinen, Loja 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Studio Loja Saarinen 1
- University of Michigan 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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