• Forster Studio (photographic studio)
• Chalmers Motor Car Company (role unspecified)
• Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)

Aerial view of the Chalmers Motor Car Company Assembly Plant, Detroit, Michigan

1907

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 9.2 x 20.6 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.5 cm

PH2000:0166

• aerial view
• exterior view

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 and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / M4614[-13]" [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.: "9" 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 / [CHALMERS MOTOR CAR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Air View] / DATE TAKEN [1907] JOB No. / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Chrysler Corporation / Forster Studio M4614-13]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, l.r.: "39" numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "Fig 26 / chalmers [sic]"

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• houses
• water tower
• industrial complex
• tracks
• industrial buildings
• smokestacks
• factory (structure)