Showing Collections: 11 - 20 of 43
Cranbrook Educational Community President's Office: Dr. Lillian H. Bauder Records
Collection
Identifier: 2020-08
Abstract
Lillian Hinckley Bauder (1939- ) was President and Chief Executive Officer of Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) from 1984 to 1996. A renowned author, educator and administrator, Dr. Bauder is also a respected community leader and a vigorous advocate for the arts. The collection includes committee meeting materials from the Architectural Advisory Committee, the Governance Committee, the Compensation, and Long-Range Planning Committees as well as the Board of Trustees and the Ad Hoc...
Dates:
1922 - 2006
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 House and Gardens Auxiliary Records
Collection
Identifier: 1995-11
Abstract
Henry Scripps Booth, youngest son of the Cranbrook founders, developed the idea of organizing an auxiliary for the purpose of helping to preserve and improve the gardens surrounding Cranbrook House. The inaugural meeting of the Cranbrook Gardens Auxiliary took place the 4th of March, 1971, at Cranbrook House. The success of this organization led to the creation of the Cranbrook House Auxiliary in 1975 to organize the use of Cranbrook House for receptions and provide information about the...
Dates:
1950 - 2002
Cranbrook-Kingswood Dance Group Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: 1996-14
Abstract
Frederick Olds photographed special events for the Cranbrook Educational Community (CEC) from 1982-2002. The bulk of this work was with the Cranbrook-Kingswood Dancers under the leadership of Jessica Sinclair. Sinclair studied with modern dance legends, such as Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Jose Limon. and began teaching modern dance as part of Kingswood School’s physical education program. During her tenure, Sinclair was responsible for the growth of Cranbrook’s dance department. In...
Dates:
1982 - 2002
Cranbrook Masque/Greek Theatre Rededication Records
Collection
Identifier: 1992-02
Abstract
This collection is based upon the rededicatory production in September 1991 of The Cranbrook Masque, first staged at Cranbrook’s Greek Theatre in 1916. The collection comprises of materials collected by Mark Coir, former Cranbrook Archives Director, and chair of the Cranbrook Greek Theatre Rededication Committee. Included are audiovisual materials; correspondence; financial; and administrative records. Also included are publicity, and production materials including a script, a musical...
Dates:
1916 - 1992; Majority of material found within 1983 - 1991
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
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
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
Design Logic Records
Collection
Identifier: 1989-12
Abstract
Design Logic was founded in March 1985 in Chicago by David Gresham and Martin Thaler. Gresham was a student of Katherine and Michael McCoy at the Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) at the time he began the company. He received his master’s degree in design in 1986. Thaler is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and the Royal College of Art. The two met while working at the ITT Corporate Design Center. A third designer, James Ludwig, joined the company in 1987. He holds a bachelor’s...
Dates:
1982 - 1989
Florence Schust Knoll Bassett Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1998-10
Abstract
Florence Schust Knoll Bassett (1917-2019) was a distinguished interior and furniture designer, architect, and entrepreneur. A 1934 Kingswood School for Girls graduate, she attended Cranbrook Academy of Art, studying architecture with Eliel Saarinen, interior design with Rachel de Wolfe Raseman, and weaving with Lilian Holm. Schust ultimately graduated with an Academy degree in Architecture in 1939, after spending a year at Barnard College, Columbia University and a year with the...
Dates:
1932 - 1999
Filtered By
- Subject: Photographs X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Education 14
- Architecture 13
- Scrapbooks 13
- Art -- Study and teaching 11
- Newspapers 8
- Architecture, Domestic 7
- Arts 7
- Exhibitions 6
- Performing arts 6
- Students 6
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 5
- Design 5
- Graphic arts 5
- Textile fabrics 5
- Art auctions 4
- Ceramics 4
- Furniture design 4
- Historic house museums 4
- Interior decoration 4
- Metalwork 4
- Museums 4
- Sculpture 4
- Sketchbooks & albums 4
- Textiles 4
- Detroit (Mich.) 3
- Fund raising 3
- Historic preservation 3
- Oral history 3
- Public relations 3
- Schools 3
- Science museums 3
- Theater 3
- Weaving 3
- Buildings and grounds 2
- Candlesticks 2
- Chair design 2
- College teaching 2
- Dance 2
- Embassy buildings 2
- Fountains 2
- France 2
- Graphic design (Typography) 2
- High school teaching 2
- History 2
- Industrial design 2
- Michigan 2
- Painting 2
- Piano 2
- Recreation 2
- Religion 2
- Administrative Heads 1
- Aerial photography 1
- Africa 1
- Ambrotype 1
- Anniversary (50th) 1
- Anthropology 1
- Archaeology 1
- Art 1
- Art objects 1
- Arts Program 1
- Arts and crafts movement 1
- Ashtrays 1
- Astronomy 1
- Athletics 1
- Authors 1
- Automotive drafting 1
- Beresford Property 1
- Board Members 1
- Borneo 1
- Bridges 1
- Buildings -- Repair and reconstruction 1
- Burlington (Vt.) 1
- California 1
- Candelabra 1
- Christian art and symbolism 1
- Church architecture 1
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
- Colorado 1
- Commencement ceremonies 1
- Committees 1
- Costa Rica 1
- Cranbrook Masque 1
- Cranbrook Music Program 1
- Cranbrook boasts a ghost 1
- Decorative arts 1
- Detroit News 1
- Dormitories 1
- Drama 1
- English language -- Writing 1
- Europe 1
- Expenditures 1
- Faculty (Education) 1
- Flags 1
- Flatware 1
- Founders' Medal (Cranbrook) 1
- Gardening -- Societies, etc. 1
- Gardens 1
- Gardens, Japanese 1
- Giant of Cranbrook 1 ∧ less
- Language
- French 1
- German 1
- Names
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 19
- Cranbrook Academy of Art 18
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 11
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 9
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 8
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 8
- Booth, George G. (George Gough), 1864-1949 7
- Cranbrook Art Museum 7
- Cranbrook Foundation 7
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 7
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 7
- Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950 7
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 7
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 6
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 6
- Cranbrook Press 5
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 5
- Strengell, Marianne, 1909- 5
- University of Michigan 5
- Bertoia, Harry 4
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 4
- Coir, Mark 4
- Croze, Harvey 4
- Detroit Institute of Arts 4
- Detroit News (Firm) 4
- Eero Saarinen & Associates 4
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 4
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 4
- Swanson, Jons Robert Ferdinand 4
- Winter, Jessie 4
- Bauder, Lillian 3
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 3
- Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Cranbrook Archives 3
- Cranbrook Schools 3
- Eastern Michigan University 3
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 3
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 3
- Hammarstrom, Olav 3
- Knodel, Gerhardt 3
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 3
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 3
- Saarinen, Lillian Swann, 1912- 3
- Saarinen, Loja 3
- Slade, Roy 3
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 3
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 3
- Baldwin, Benjamin, 1913-1993 2
- Barker, Laurence (Laurence Addison), 1930- 2
- Booth, Stephen Farr 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Cranbrook Academy of Art. Architecture Studio 2
- Cranbrook House & Gardens (Organization) 2
- Frayer, William Alley 2
- GM Technical Center 2
- General Motors Corporation 2
- Girard, Alexander 2
- Horizons-Upward Bound 2
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 2
- Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995 2
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 2
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 2
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 2
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- McCoy, Katherine, 1945- 2
- McCoy, Michael (1944) 2
- McEwen, Katherine 2
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 2
- Michaels, Glen, 1927- 2
- Michigan State University 2
- Minoru Yamasaki and Associates 2
- Oakland Community College 2
- Roche, Kevin, 1922-2019 2
- Schmidt, Julius, 1923-2017 2
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 2
- Stone, Arthur J., 1847-1938 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Swanson Associates 2
- Synder, Ben M., III, 1920-2017 2
- Thomas, Richard 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 2
- White, Lee A., 1886- 2
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
- Allen, Maurice B. 1
- American Institute of Architects 1
- American Institute of Decorators 1
- Antioch College 1
- Askew, June 1
- Askew, Richard G. 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, John McLaughlin 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Buckner, Isabel Wolfner 1
- Buckner, Noel 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Cantor, Allen 1
- Carmel, James H., 1919-2016 1
- Concordia Senior College (Fort Wayne, Ind.) 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more