View to the main entrance to the Gilbert Lee house, 201 John R. Street, Detroit, Michigan

People:

Elmer L. Astleford (photographer)
Albert Kahn (architect)
Mason & Rice (role unspecified)
Gilbert Lee (role unspecified)

Title:

View to the main entrance to the Gilbert Lee house, 201 John R. Street, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1888

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.5 x 18.9 cm sheet: 25.4 x 20.6 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0504

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / M4567[-13]" [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 / [GILBERT LEE HOUSE] / LOCATION / [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Entrance / ARCHITECTS: Mason & Rice] / DATE TAKEN / [1888] JOB No. / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Elmer L. Astleford / Forster Studio M4567-13]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; label is placed sideways] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "Fig. 1"

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
stairs
house
windows
mansion
crests
stained glass (material) window

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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