Education
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:
Ken Isaacs with "Chaos, Order" on Blackboard
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_73_16_03
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06
Margueritte Kimball Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1991-03
Abstract
Margueritte Eleanor Kimball was born on October 19, 1906, in Clinton, Massachusetts. In 1942 Kimball joined the Cranbrook Academy of Art as a student and immediately began serving as the Academy's financial secretary. A beloved and respected member of the Cranbrook community, Kimball used her position to interact with and collect various materials relating to the Academy's faculty and students. Kimball retired in 1968, nevertheless spending her remaining years in Boston as an exhibiting...
Dates:
Majority of material found in circa 1941-1996; undated
C. Oliver LaGrone Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1997-01
Abstract
Clarence Oliver LaGrone was the first African-American student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art, where he studied with Carl Milles starting in the fall of 1941. Upon completing his studies at Cranbrook, Oliver worked a variety of jobs in order to support his family, including at the Ford Rouge Plant. During the McCarthy era, when Oliver refused to inform on his “communist” contacts in the art world, particularly Paul Robeson, he lost his UAW job. He returned to school, earning the equivalent...
Dates:
1942 - 1995
Long-haired UIC Students Around the New World Pickup
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_70_14_02
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-05
Magnificent Obsessions: Notes on the Teaching of CRAFT
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_42_15
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12
Elizabeth Wallace McLean Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1994-01
Abstract
Elizabeth Wallace McLean was the first grandchild of George G. and Ellen Scripps Booth, founders of the Cranbrook Educational Community. Elizabeth was the first of seven students at Brookside School, where she studied until the 10th grade graduating from Kingswood in 1934. The collection contains clippings, photographs, programs, and scrapbooks focusing on the early years of Kingswood and Brookside schools.
Dates:
1920 - 1994; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1934
Memo about copymaking from Stanley Tigerman
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_24_21
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-13
Memo, Isaacs made "Permanent fellow, Committee for Physical Thought"
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_28_19
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-12
Wallace MacMahon Mitchell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 1990-21
Abstract
Wallace McMahon Mitchell was born on October 9, 1911 in Detroit, Michigan to Arthur Z. and Edith McMahon Mitchell. He was a respected painter, textile designer, geometric abstractionist, and a Cranbrook Academy of Art (CAA) graduate student (’35). He later served at the Academy as a painting, and arts and crafts instructor; registrar; director; and then president until his death in 1977. The collection contains the papers of Mitchell and his family during his years at Cranbrook. Included are...
Dates:
1934 - 1980
Notebook with Progressive House photos on cover
Digital Image
Identifier: 202101_22_04
Dates:
Digitized: 2022-10-06