View of the north and east façades of the School with the Manufacturing Building in the background, Ford Motor Company Willow Run Bomber Assembly Plant, Willow Run, Michigan

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the north and east façades of the School with the Manufacturing Building in the background, Ford Motor Company Willow Run Bomber Assembly Plant, Willow Run, Michigan

Date:

September 1942

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.4 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.4 x 26.2 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0394

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed, dated and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "NAME OF OWNER [Ford Motor Company] / LOCATION [Willow Run, nr. Ypsilanti] / DESCRIPTION [N.W. [sic] Corner of School Looking Towards [Mfg.] Bldg.] / DATE TAKEN [Sept. 1942] JOB No. [1888 K] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Owner 17410]" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form] labelled and numbered - by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.l.: "AK 21" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.c.: "21" numbered - by an unknown hand, in the image, l.r.: "17410"

Location:

Willow Run; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering
military

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
windows
industrial complex
industrial buildings
school
manufacturing building
bomber 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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