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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
Christ Church Cranbrook Records
Collection
Identifier: 1992-01
Abstract
In 1923, George Gough Booth wrote to the Rev. Samuel Simpson Marquis with his ideas for building an Episcopal church and school on the Cranbrook estate to serve the needs of the growing Bloomfield Hills community. Booth would fund the construction of the church and provide an endowment for its maintenance. After obtaining the agreement of Bishop Herman Page, hiring and architect and a contractor, a groundbreaking ceremony took place on July 5, 1925. Christ Church Cranbrook was consecrated on...
Dates:
1923 - 2002
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 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
F. Shirley Prouty Research Collection on Johannes Kirchmayer
Collection
Identifier: 2018-04
Abstract
F. Shirley Prouty is the great great-niece of Johannes Kirchmayer. She spent many years researching his life, family history, and artworks. Her research is published in the book Johannes Kirchmayer, 1860-1930: master carver from Germany's passion play village to America's finest sanctuaries. This collection holds the research files for this publication. Johannes Kirchmayer was born in Oberammergau, Bavaria, in 1860 and emigrated to the United States in 1880. He work is predominantly...
Dates:
1873 - 2015; Majority of material found within 1994 - 2015
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- Booth, James Scripps, 1888-1954 2
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- Morris & Co. (London, England) 2
- Page, Herman, Reverend, 1866-1942 2
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- Saarinen, Loja 2
- Scripps, James E. (James Edmund), 1835-1906 2
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- Bach, Oscar Bruno, 1884-1957 1
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- Booth, Carolyn Farr 1
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- Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961 1
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- Burrowes, Marcus R. 1
- Cascieri, Arcangelo, 1902-1997 1
- Charles E. Lauriat Co. 1
- Christ Church Cranbrook (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.). Episcopal Churchwomen 1
- Church of St. Mary the Virgin (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Church of the Intercession (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Cleveland Museum of Art 1
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- Cooke, Edward S., Jr. (Edward Strong), 1954- 1
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- Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 1
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- Grotell, Maija, 1899-1973 1
- Herter Brothers (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Herter, Albert, 1871-1950 1
- Hulbert, Harold S. (Harold Stacey), 1887-1949 1
- Institute for Advanced Pastoral Studies 1
- Institute of Design (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars) Ltd. 1
- Kellogg, Frederick William, 1866-1940 1
- Kempe, Charles Eamer, 1837-1907 1
- Knoll, Florence, 1917-2019 1
- Lauriat, Charles E., 1842-1920 1
- Lawrie, Lee, 1877-1963 1
- Le Brun, Napoleon, 1821-1901 1
- Manship, Paul, 1885-1966 1
- McMath, Robert R. (Robert Raynolds), 1891-1962 1
- McRae, Milton A. (Milton Alexander), 1858-1930 1
- Mitchell, Wallace, 1911-1977 1
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