• Unknown (photographer)
• Albert Kahn, Architect, Ernest Wilby, Associate (role unspecified)

View of the principal façade of Temple Beth El (now the Bonstelle Theater of Wayne State University), Detroit, Michigan

1903

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 15.5 x 23.8 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

PH2000:0578

• 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" [upside down] 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.: "80" 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 / [TEMPLE BETH EL] / LOCATION / [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION [Altered beyond recognition, the / building is now the Wayne State / University Bonstelle Theatre.] / DATE TAKEN / [1903] JOB No. / [136] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [File N.]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, u.l.: "2" and l.r.: "29" numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "33%"

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

• architecture

• entrance
• reliefs
• stairs
• cresting
• dome
• columns (architectural elements)
• identification sign
• pediment
• theatre
• Ionic order columns (architectural elements)
• synagogue