Margueritte Kimball papers relating to the Cranbrook Academy of Art
name: label: Creator
content: Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Academy of Art
label: Names
content: Cranbrook Kingswood School (Bloomfield Hills, Mich.)
label: Names
content: Booth, Henry Scripps, 1897-1988
label: Names
content: Saarinen, Eliel, 1873-1950
topic: label: Occupation
content: Administrators -- Michigan -- Bloomfield Hills
label: Topic
content: American studio craft movement
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Margueritte Kimball in 1993. The 107 snapshots of people and events at Cranbrook were donated by John Lorence in 1993, who received them from Kimball.
creator: label: Creator
content: Kimball, Margueritte Eleanor, 1906-1995
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content: Margueritte Kimball papers relating to the Cranbrook Academy of Art
abstract: label: Summary
content: The papers of Margueritte Kimball, financial secretary of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1996. The collection documents the school's history through organization files collected by Kimball in her capacity as secretary, and printed material recording events at the academy.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Margueritte Kimball (1906-1995) was a student at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and served as the school's financial secretary for 26 years.

Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, Kimball graduated from Bryant and Stratton Commercial College in Boston and later took drawing classes at the Copley Society Studio. In 1941, Kimball traveled to Michigan where she visited Cranbrook, an educational complex consisting of several schools including the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She was accepted to the Academy after showing her drawings to the head of the painting department. In 1942 she began attending classes and embarked on her long career as the Academy's financial secretary. Kimball did not graduate from the school, but received an honorary degree on retirement, after which she returned to the Boston area where she died in 1995.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 2 Linear Feet
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1929-1996
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.kimbmarg
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Drawings
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged as 2 series.

Series 1: Organization Files, 1943-1996 (0.4 linear feet; Box 1, OV 4)

Series 2: Printed Materials, 1929-1993 (1.6 linear feet; Boxes 1-3, OVs 4-5)
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: The collection was processed, and a finding aid prepared by Sarah Mundy in 2022.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Drawings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The papers of Margueritte Kimball, financial secretary of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, measure 2.0 linear feet and date from 1929 to 1996. The collection documents the school's history through organization files collected by Kimball in her capacity as secretary, and printed material recording events at the academy.

Organization files consist of correspondence, a file on Cranbrook's history which includes a letter from Henry Scripps Booth discussing Eliel Saarinen's association with the school, faculty and staff position charts, snapshots of people and events at the school, student rosters, Kingswood School Cranbrook yearbooks, and a sound recording of an interview with Kimball conducted by Ragnhild Reingardt. Printed materials consist of school catalogs, exhibition and sales catalogs and announcements, journals and magazines, and chronological files of mixed printed materials.
relatedmaterial: label: Related Materials
content: Also in the Archives of American Art is an interview with Margueritte Kimball conducted on March 10-April 13, 1993 by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art, regarding her years at the Cranbrook Academy of Art.