View of the principal façade of the Jewett Automobile Assembly Plant, Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company, Warren Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)
Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Jewett Automobile Assembly Plant, Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company, Warren Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1914

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.4 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0233

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed, in typescript and black ink and by an unknown hand in blue felt pen, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Detroit, Michigan (Warren Ave.)] / DESCRIPTION / [Jewett Plant] / DATE TAKEN [1914] JOB No. [797] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "797" is inscribed]

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fence
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
parking lot
automobiles
identification sign
industrial complex
industrial building
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
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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