Interior view of the annex of the Manufacturing Building (now partially a warehouse and partially abandoned) showing the crane bays, Highland Park Plant (now abandoned), Ford Motor Company, Highland Park, Michigan

People:

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

Title:

Date:

between 1918 and 1939

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 15.8 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0173

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

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.: "20" labelled, imprinted and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c. to c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [FORD MOTOR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Highland Park, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / DATE TAKEN JOB No. [375] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Neg. in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] labelled, inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in pen, blue ink and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, verso, l.c.: "NFPA INDUS [sic] FIRE HAZARDS 6181-B / Btw H.T. / Fig 22.9 / 50%"

Location:

Highland Park; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

bay (building divisions)
industrial complex
industrial building
pipes (conduits)
trusses
train (vehicle grouping)
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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