Mary Chase Stratton papers, 1848-1948.

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Mary Chase Stratton papers, 1848-1948.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/298112623

This collection consists of correspondence, newspaper clippings, color slides of Pewabic pottery and miscellaneous materials. Items include a journal of E.H. Brown, of Norwalk, Ohio, beginning Mar. 30, 1848, and a Bible inscribed in 1854; and the marriage service booklet and certificate of Mary Chase Perry ad William Buck Stratton on June 19, 1918.

1.5 linear ft. (3 boxes, 1 large manuscript)

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7275432

Detroit Public Library, Detroit Main Library

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Brown, E. H. (Ethna H.)

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Stratton, Mary Chase Perry, 1867-1961

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Born in Hancock, Mich. on Mar. 15, 1867, Mary Chase Perry Stratton founded the nationally famous Pewabic Pottery Company in Detroit in 1907, named for a mine near her Upper Peninsula birthplace. After the sudden death of her father near the end of the 19th century, she came with her mother and two older siblings to Detroit, where her brother Fred worked as a druggist in 1900. Mary Chase Perry married William Buck Stratton, an architect, on June 19, 1918, and he incorporated her art in his buildi...