Albert Kahn photograph series. 1916-1943.

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Albert Kahn photograph series. 1916-1943.

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Construction photographs of industrial, commercial, residential, and institutional projects designed by Kahn in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and across the nation. Buildings represented in the photograph series include various Ford Motor Company buildings, the General Motors (Durant) Building, the Chrysler Corporation Tank Arsenal (Warren, Michigan), the Ford Motor Company Bomber Plant (Ypsilanti, Mich.), the University of Michigan Hospital (1919-1921), and the University of Michigan Natural Science Building (1914-1915).

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Warren Truck Assembly Plant (Chrysler Corporation)

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University of Michigan. University Hospital

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Detroit Trust Company

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When John F. Dodge died in January 1920, his will provided for the establishment of a trust managed by the Detroit Trust Company in Detroit, Michigan. In 1919, just the year before, John Dodge, his brother Horace Dodge, James Couzens, and the other minority shareholders in the Ford Motor Company (FMC) were approached about selling their FMC stock. Before the Dodge brothers would sell their shares, they wanted to know what the Federal income taxes would be on the proceeds. The Commissioner of the...

General Motors Building (Detroit, Mich.)

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Natural Science Building (University of Michigan)

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Willow Run Bomber Plant.

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University of Michigan.

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Outside of museum holdings, no comprehensive survey and inventory of campus artwork had been attempted since 1937. With support from the Michigan Commission on Art in Public Places, 1,076 items were inventoried during 1988-1990. Additional inventory work was undertaken in 1997-1998 for risk management purposed, but generated little new information. From the description of Inventory of University of Michigan-owned art, 1988-1990, 1997-1998. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id...

Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942

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