View of the principal façade of the National Theatre (now abandoned), Monroe Street, Detroit, Michigan

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the National Theatre (now abandoned), Monroe Street, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1910

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 24.1 x 15.8 cm sheet: 25.4 x 20.3 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0584

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" [sideways] labelled, imprinted, dated, inscribed and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.l. to c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [NATIONAL THEATRE] / LOCATION / [Monroe Street / Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Exterior view showing use of terra cotta / in a theatrical neo-baroque design] / DATE TAKEN / [1910] JOB No. / [478] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [File N.]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; label is placed sideways]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, l.r.: "12"

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
stores
towers (building divisions)
arch
show-windows
theatre
finials
commercial buildings
mercantile buildings
marquee

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

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