• Forster Studio (photographic studio)
• Henry B. Joy (role unspecified)

View of a Test Cell of the Packard Motor Car Company Assembly Plant (now abandoned) East Grand Boulevard, Detroit, Michigan

August 1944 or before

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.6 x 22.8 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

PH2000:0165

• exterior view

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on 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 and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER / STUDIO / 2832 E. GRAND BOULEVARD / DETROIT / File No. A6481-1" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline; name surrounds an image of an aperture of a camera] 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 / [PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY] / LOCATION / [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [32 Additional Test Cells West of / Job 201-MD, Bldg. #84-B] / DATE TAKEN / [Received August 1944] JOB No. [201-ME Rev.] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Owner 6813-J / Forster A-6481-1]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "TAKEN" is covered by a series of X's]

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• entrance
• windows
• gate
• street lighting units
• water tower
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• smokestacks
• automobile assembly plant
• factory (structure)