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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 Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 2020-03
Abstract
Cranbrook history dates back to 1904 when George and Ellen Booth purchased land in Bloomfield Hills, MI for their home. The next five decades saw the majority of this land transformed into an educational, artistic, and scientific community. In the early 1970s, a major reorganzition created the Cranbrook Educational Community. More than a century later, in 2021, this Community comprises five program areas: Cranbrook Schools, Cranbrook Art Academy, Cranbrook Art Museum, Cranbrook Institute of...
Dates:
circa 1830-; Majority of material found within 1931 - 1970
The Eccentric Newspaper Records
Collection
Identifier: 2009-02
Abstract
George H. Mitchell and Almeron Whitehead first published The Birmingham Eccentric on 2 May 1878 in Birmingham, Michigan. The four-page issue was a combination of short personal announcements and advertisements. Although both partners wrote for their paper, Whitehead took on the bulk of the writing duties. Under their leadership the paper thrived. In 1912, the two dissolved their partnership as friends leaving Mitchell as the sole publisher. In July 1919, Fred E. Van Black, a linotype...
Dates:
1930 - 2000
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- Askew, June 1
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- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 1
- Bertoia, Harry 1
- Birmingham Eccentric (Newspaper) 1
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 1
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- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
- Christ-Janer, Albert, 1910-1973 1
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- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 1
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hance, G. W. (George W.) 1
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Munroe, Joseph 1
- Packard, James 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 1
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 1
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 1
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 1
- Thomas, Richard 1
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