Interior view of the Assembly [?] Building, Half-Ton Truck Plant, Chrysler Corporation Dodge division, Mound and Eight Mile Roads, Detroit, Michigan

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
Chrysler Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Interior view of the Assembly [?] Building, Half-Ton Truck Plant, Chrysler Corporation Dodge division, Mound and Eight Mile Roads, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

June 1938

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 8.9 x 23.5 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0217

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / P381[-]2" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [CHRYSLER CORPORATION / DODGE DIVISION] / LOCATION [Mound & Eight Mile Roads / Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [1/2 Ton Truck Plant] / DATE TAKEN [June 1938] JOB No. [1766] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich - 4803-T / Forster - P381-2]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stairs
columns (architectural elements)
industrial complex
industrial building
pipes (conduits)
machinery
trusses
monitors (roof appendages)
manufacturing building
truck assembly plant
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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