View of the principal and lateral façades of the Central Branch of the YWCA (now demolished), 2230 Witherell Drive [?], Detroit, Michigan

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn (architect)
Young Women's Christian Association of Metropolitan Detroit (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Central Branch of the YWCA (now demolished), 2230 Witherell Drive [?], Detroit, Michigan

Date:

6 October 1929

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.7 x 19.3 cm sheet: 25.4 x 20.8 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0621

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

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[-]12" [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. to l.c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [YWCA] / LOCATION / [2230 Witherell / Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Central Branch] / DATE TAKEN / [10-6-29] JOB No. / [1362] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Forster P-702-12]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] numbered - by an unknown hand, in white ? ink, in the negative, l.l.: "17121-2"

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
parapet
balconets
automobiles
broken pediment
athletic club
community centre

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

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