View of the principal façade of the Detroit Free Press Building (now the Transportation Building), Detroit, Michigan

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
Detroit Free Press (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Detroit Free Press Building (now the Transportation Building), Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1925

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.5 x 18.7 cm sheet: 25.3 x 20.7 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0607

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] stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in pen and black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / P702[-]19" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed] 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 / [THE DETROIT FREE PRESS] / LOCATION [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Newspaper Plant] / DATE TAKEN / [1925] JOB No. / [1170] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich 8661-Y / Forster P-702-19]" [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.: "52" labelled and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a grey paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.l.: "Detroit Free Press / Erected 1925" [sideways]

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
automobiles
identification signs
show-windows
office building
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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