Cranbrook Foundation records
name: label: Creator
content: Cranbrook Foundation
label: Names
content: American Federation of Arts
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content: Detroit Institute of Arts
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content: Society of Arts and Crafts (Boston, Mass.)
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content: Society of Arts and Crafts (Detroit, Mich.)
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content: Scripps family
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content: Bach, Oscar Bruno, b. 1884
label: Names
content: Billington, Cecil
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content: Booth, George G. (George Gough), b. 1864
label: Names
content: Bradford, Francis Scott, 1898-1961
label: Names
content: Cheney, Sheldon, 1886-
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content: Childs, M. W.
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content: Gimpel, René
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content: Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942
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content: Karbel, Mario
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content: Kirk, Arthur Neville
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content: Kirshmayer, I.
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content: Lorch, Emil, 1870-1963
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content: Lyle, John M. (John McIntosh), 1872-1945
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content: McEwen, Katherine, b. 1875
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content: Milles, Carl, 1875-1955
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content: Player, Cyril Arthur
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Lent for microfilming 1974 by the Cranbrook Foundation.
creator: label: Creator
content: Cranbrook Foundation
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 640 Items ((on 1 microfilm reel))
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1912-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.cranfoun
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: 35mm microfilm reel 1053 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
originalsloc: label: Existence and Location of Originals
content: Originals in Cranbrook Foundation, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondence; financial records; a draft of a proposed publication about Cranbrook; letters regarding a biography of founder, George G. Booth, and of the Scripps family; miscellaneous items, including an address by George Booth to the Cranbrook School; and clippings.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Among the individual correspondents are Albert Kahn, M. W. Childs, Emil Lorch, Oscar Bach, Mario Karbel, Francis Scott Bradford, Jr., Katherine McEwen, I. Kirshmayer, René Gimpel, Sheldon Cheney, Carl Milles, John M. Lyle, Cecil Billington, Cyril Arthur Player, and Arthur Neville Kirk. Organizations figuring in the correspondence include the American Federation of Arts, the Society of Arts and Crafts, Detroit, the Society of Arts and Crafts, Boston, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.