View of the principal and lateral façades of the annex of the Manufacturing Building (now partially a warehouse and partially abandoned) under construction, Highland Park Plant (now abandoned), Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)

Title:

Date:

1918

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.1 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0172

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c.: "STUDIO QUADRANTE s.n.c. / vie [sic] montepulciano [sic] 2-20124 milano [sic]"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, r.: "19" labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, verso, c. to c.r.: with title and "Job No. 375 / Six-story building of concrete construction with / mushroom columns erected at the rear of the / original paltn [sic]."; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, l.r.: "8"

Location:

Highland Park; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
automobiles
industrial complex
industrial building
annex (building division)
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
manufacturing building
factory (structure)

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

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