Manuscripts
Series 7. Oversize Ephemera and Art
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Series 7. Cranbrook Ephemera
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This series includes personal correspondence, slides, photographs, photocopies of Morris & Co. letters, and miscellaneous ephemera relating to Berger's interest in George and Ellen Booth's Cranbrook community in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan and in particular in the founders' acquisition of the Morris & Co. tapestries "The Passing of Venus", "The New Dispensation" and "The Old Dispensation". The correspondence dates from the late 1980s. Some of the photographs record the Bergers' trip to Cranbrook in May of 1992.
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Series 7: Ephemera, (1797-1910)
Manuscripts
The material in this series is arranged by format. The ephemera includes envelopes, notes, cover sheets and clippings; also included are the leather, cloth and wooden covers removed from material cataloged elsewhere in the collection
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Ephemera. Note: There is an additional box of ephemera found in Series 7
Manuscripts
Subjects covered: Turner's education; family affairs; business affairs, particularly with his publisher Henry Holt and Co.; ideas about the frontier, sectionalism, historical scholarship, professional matters generally, and politics; Turner's activities and experiences at Johns Hopkins University, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Harvard and the Huntington Library; teaching career; work with the Harvard Commission on Western History; work with the Dictionary of American biography project; and his role in the American Historical Association, particularly the "Bancroft insurrection" of 1915. In his extensive research notes, maps, and graphs there is a large body of data about American history. Collection contains: letters, documents, maps, photographs, lantern slides, research notes, lecture notes, manuscripts of speeches, essays, books, and clippings. The collection also contains 15 boxes of correspondence between Turner and Alice Forbes Perkins Hooper.
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