View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Morgan and Wright Company (now the United States Tires Company [?]) Assembly Plant, Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

People:

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

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Morgan and Wright Company (now the United States Tires Company [?]) Assembly Plant, Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

between 1909 and 1939

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.3 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.3 x 25.3 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0502

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" 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 / [MORGAN & WRIGHT (now U.S. Rubber [sic])] / LOCATION [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Jefferson Ave. Elevation of Plant] / DATE TAKEN JOB No. / [578, etc.] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [FILE N.]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] numbered - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "42783"

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
identification signs
industrial complex
industrial buildings
awnings
automobile wheel assembly plant
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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