View of the principal and lateral façades of the Detroit News Building, Detroit, Michigan

People:

Manning Bros. (photographic studio)
Detroit News Company (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Detroit News Building, Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1915

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.2 x 23.9 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0591

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" 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[-30]" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed] labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c.: "STUDIO QUADRANTE s.n.c. / vie [sic] montepulciano [sic] 2-20124 milano [sic]"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, r.: "96" labelled, imprinted, dated, inscribed and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [7 / DETROIT TIMES] / LOCATION [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION [Exterior] / DATE TAKEN / [1915] JOB No. / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Manning Bros. / Forster Studio - M4567-30]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "7" is by an unknown hand, in graphite]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, l.r.: "48" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "30%" numbered - by an unknown hand, in white ? ink, in the negative, l.r.: "90836"

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
figures (representations)
windows
sculpture
office building
crests
news agency
printing press

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

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