Showing Collections: 1 - 3 of 3
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
Ralph Rapson Papers
Collection
Identifier: 2012-01
Abstract
Ralph Rapson, born on September 13, 1914, in Alma, Michigan, won a scholarship to the University of Michigan's College of Architecture in 1935. Admitted to the Phi Kappa Phi Society in 1938, he was encouraged to apply for the George G. Booth Travelling Fellowship in Architecture. He did not receive the fellowship but his submission impressed Eliel Saarinen, who offered Rapson a scholarship to attend the Academy of Art, where he helped Saarinen on a planning project for the State Capitol...
Dates:
1935 - 1954
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
Filtered By
- Names: Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) X
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Architecture 2
- Architecture, Domestic 2
- Art -- Study and teaching 2
- Photographs 2
- Religion 2
- Science museums 2
- Art auctions 1
- Bloomfield Hills (Mich.) 1
- Chair design 1
- College teaching 1
- Embassy buildings 1
- Furniture design 1
- Glass painting and staining 1
- Housing 1
- Mexico 1
- Museums 1
- Newspapers 1
- Public relations 1
- Textile fabrics 1
- Textiles 1 ∧ less
- Names
- Booth, Ellen Warren Scripps, 1863-1948 2
- Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988 2
- Brookside School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Buckberrough, John 2
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Foundation 2
- Cranbrook Institute of Science 2
- Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Cranbrook Press 2
- Cranbrook School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 2
- Frayer, William Alley 2
- Fredericks, Marshall M., 1908-1998 2
- Hatt, Robert T. (Robert Torrens), 1902- 2
- Marquis, Samuel S., 1866-1948 2
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 2
- Saarinen, Eero, 1910-1961 2
- Sepeshy, Zoltan, 1898-1974 2
- Stevens, William Oliver, 1878-1955 2
- Stone, Ralph, 1868-1957 2
- Vettraino, Dominick 2
- Winter, Jessie 2
- Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 2
- Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976 1
- Barbour, William T. 1
- Bertoia, Harry 1
- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 1
- Booth, Ralph H. 1
- Booth, Stephen Farr 1
- Breuer, Marcel, 1902-1981 1
- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 1
- Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.) 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
- Croze, Harvey 1
- Curtis, Roswell G. 1
- Detroit Institute of Arts 1
- Detroit News (Firm) 1
- Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts 1
- Dow, Alden B., 1904-1983 1
- Eames, Charles 1
- Episcopal Church. Diocese of Michigan 1
- Fuller, R. Buckminster (Richard Buckminster), 1895-1983 1
- Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969 1
- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Hudnut, Joseph, 1886-1968 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Irving & Casson 1
- Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Saint Louis, Mo.) 1
- Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005 1
- Keck, George Fred, 1895-1980 1
- Kirchmayer, Johannes, 1860-1930 1
- Kirk, Arthur Nevill 1
- Knoll Associates, Inc. 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Knoll, Hans, 1914-1955 1
- Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963 1
- Maroti, Geza 1
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1
- McEwen, Katherine 1
- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969 1
- Milles, Carl, 1875-1955 1
- Milles, Olga Granner, 1874-1967 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
- Moholy-Nagy, László, 1895-1946 1
- Morris & Co. (London, England) 1
- Nowicki, M. S. 1
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 1
- Paulsen, S. Glen (Serenus Glen) 1
- Pewabic Pottery (Firm) 1
- Plumb, Helen 1
- Rapson, Ralph, 1914-2008 1
- Saarinen Swanson, Pipsan 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
- University of Michigan 1
- University of Minnesota 1
- Weese, Harry, 1915-1998 1
- White, Lee A., 1886- 1
- Wurster, William Wilson 1 ∧ less
∨ more
∨ more