Since it is Preservation Week, today’s Photo Friday features an image from one of the collections we have been working to stabilize. For the past few weeks my colleague, Belinda Krencicki, and I have photographed and captured metadata for the watercolor paintings, pen and pencil drawings, and pastels in the James Scripps Booth and John McLaughlin Booth Papers. This information will be used to catalog the items in our Collections Management system. In addition to documenting the works, we re-housed all of the items–placing them in archival folders and interleaving each work to protect it.
Pencil and pastel sketch of the exterior of the Detroit News building, James Scripps Booth, 1917.
The artwork ranges from pastel landscapes, to portrait studies, to automobile racing. The image above is one of my favorites – a sketch of the Detroit News building. I hope you enjoy it too!
– Gina Tecos, Archivist
Cranbrook Kitchen Sink 
Lovely ! Thanks Gina 🙂
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Thank you, Carolyn!
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I like that sketch too. It was the sketch he (JSB) made before he did the final pastels of the Detroit News building. I believe he did four pastels and they were in the president’s office at the Detroit News. I don’t know where they went after the News vacated the building downtown.
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Thank you so much for this information! It is really interesting to learn more about these works.
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The News staff took the framed pastels with them when they moved.
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From which branch does John McLaughlin Booth come from?
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