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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
Cranbrook Academy of Art Women's Committee
Collection
Identifier: 1991-01
Abstract
The Cranbrook Academy of Arts Women’s Committee was founded on February 11, 1966 as the social arm of the Friends of the Academy (the Museum’s new membership program). The committee’s purpose was to promote and undertake activities and projects that would further the welfare of the Academy and the Museum. Throughout nearly forty years the committee hosted numerous events, programs, and fundraising projects until disbanded in 2002. The bulk of the collection reflects primarly the Women's...
Dates:
1966 - 2006
Virginia Kingswood Booth Vogel Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1999-10
Abstract
Virginia Kingswood Booth Vogel was the only daughter of Ralph Harman Booth and Myrtle Mary Batterman Booth. Ralph Harman Booth was a cofounder of Booth Newspapers and a brother of George Gough Booth, founder of Cranbrook. As President of the Detroit Museum of Art and of the Detroit Arts Commission, Booth was responsible for the creation of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and served as the Institute's director as well as a member of its board of directors. Virginia Booth married William...
Dates:
1990 - 1998
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
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- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 3
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- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
- Booth, Ralph H. 2
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
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- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 2
- Frayer, William Alley 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 2
- Saarinen, Loja 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Ardolino, Edward 1
- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
- Bank of Montreal 1
- Booth, Myrtle Mary 1
- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 1
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- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
- Connick, Charles J. (Charles Jay), 1875- 1
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- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 1
- Cranbrook Church of England Primary School (Cranbrook, Kent, England) 1
- Cranbrook School (Sydney, Australia) 1
- Curtis, Roswell G. 1
- DeSalle, Peggy 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Detroit Trust Company 1
- Edw. F. Caldwell & Co. 1
- Ehrich Galleries 1
- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
- Goodhue, Bertram Grosvenor, 1869-1924 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hall, Michael 1
- Herter, Albert, 1871-1950 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knodel, Gerhardt 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Packard Motor Car Company 1
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- Royal School of Needlework (London, England) 1
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 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
- Simonds, O. C. (Ossian Cole), 1855-1931 1
- Slade, Roy 1
- Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.) 1
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 1
- Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961 1
- Strengell, Gustaf 1
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 1
- Thompson, Paul W. (Paul Woodard), 1909-1994 1
- University of Michigan 1
- Valentiner, Wilhelm Reinhold, 1880-1958 1
- Vettraino, Dominick 1
- Vogel, Virginia Kingswood Booth 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
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