Scripps Booth Family History
SOURCES
A primary source for the biographical family member sketches is the personal papers, correspondence, and cash books of Ralph Harman Booth still in the possession of the John Lord Booth Family. Additional published sources include the following:

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THE CRANBROOK BOOTH FAMILY OF AMERICA, 1998 Revised Edition, Corajoyce Rauss, editor and compiler, Cranbrook Press, 1998, ISBN 0-9636492-3-x

THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS, a Brief History, by William H. Peck, Founders Society of the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1991, ISBN 0-89558-135-3

DIARY OF AN ART DEALER, by René Gimpel, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Inc. , translated by John Rosenberg, 1967

FIVE MONTHS ABROAD, by James E. Scripps, F.B. Dickinson, Detroit, 1882

RALPH BOOTH’S VISION: ENLIGHTENING THE PUBLIC THROUGH NEWSPAPERS AND ART MUSEUMS, by John L. Booth, II, private printing and lecture notes for lectures given at the Grosse Pointe Historical Society, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Prismatic Club of Detroit

ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT IN BOSTON, Harvard’s H. Langford Warren, by Maureen Meister, Univ. Press of New England, 2003, ISBN 1-58465-351-5

THE PASSIONATE EYE, the Life of William R. Valentiner, by Margret Sterne, Wayne State Press, 1980, ISBN 0-8143-1631-X

NEWSPAPER BARONS, a Biography of the Scripps Family, by Patricia Schaelchlin, San Diego Historical Society and the Kales Press, 2003, Lib. Congress 2002106130

MEMORIAL OF THE SCRIPPS FAMILY, A CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE, by James E. Scripps, private printing Detroit, 1891

ELLEN BROWNING SCRIPPS, New Money and American Philanthropy, by Molly McClain, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln & London, 2017, Lib. of Congress 2017936202

SCRIPPS, THE DIVIDED DYNASTY, The History of the First Family of American Journalism, by Jack Casserly, Donald. I. Fine, Inc. New York, 1993, ISBN 1-55611-378-1

AUTOMOBILE QUARTERLY, Third Quarter, 1975, Vol. XIII, Number 3, Automobile Quarterly, Inc. , N.Y. ISBN 0005-1435….. “Artist’s Conception, the Novel Cars of James Scripps-Booth”, by Sam Medway, pp 228-247.

WWJ, THE DETROIT NEWS, published by The Evening News Association, Detroit, 1922. PHOTO CREDITS CRANBROOK CENTER FOR COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH, the family photo archives Ralph Harman Booth and Mary Batterman Booth family photo collection in the possession of the family of John Lord Booth