Photograph of a drawing showing sections of a wall and column of Assembly Building No. 10, Packard Motor Car Company Assembly Plant (now abandoned), East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan

People:

Copycraft (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)
Henry B. Joy (role unspecified)

Title:

Photograph of a drawing showing sections of a wall and column of Assembly Building No. 10, Packard Motor Car Company Assembly Plant (now abandoned), East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1905 or after

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing
detail drawings

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 25.4 x 20.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0160

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
sections

Point of View:

interior views

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION [Building #10 - Typical Detail Sections / Original reinforced concrete building (2-story) / erected for Packard in 1905 (third and fourth floors / added later).] / DATE TAKEN [Plans drawn / 1905] JOB No. [227 / (Revised 12-16-09)]/ PHOTOGRAPHER / [Copycraft / Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; date of "1905" before "DATE TAKEN" is underlined; label is placed sideways] inscribed - in the image, b.: "TYPICAL - DETAIL - SECTIONS / [with scale]"; and throughout: with dimensions and specifications

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

columns (architectural elements)
architectural drawing
industrial complex
industrial building
lintels
automobile assembly plant
cinder block
detail drawings
mullion
sill
factory (structure)
beams (structural elements)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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