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Albert Kahn, Inc., Architects & Engineers, Detroit

Industrial & Commercial Buildings

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Title
Title: Industrial & Commercial Buildings
Author: Architects & Engineers Albert Kahn, Inc.
Publisher: Albert Kahn, Inc., Architects & Engineers, Detroit
Published: 1936
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Catalogs: Architecture, Photography, Engineering
Description: Original blue cloth binding with dark blue spine, and blue and silver text and decoration on cover and spine. Edges are lightly worn, but binding is firm. Blue pastedowns in very good condition. Interior is unmarked. Pages are slightly tanned, and some have stuck together in the past, leaving minor flaws where they were separated. This book contains a selection of photographs of Albert Kahn's industrial and commercial buildings, many in Detroit and throughout Michigan, but also elsewhere. There are interior and exterior shots, and the occasional aerial view of a plant's campus. Among the buildings featured are: the Fisher Building, the General Motors Building of Detroit, the Bank of Saginaw, the New Center Building of Detroit, the Kresge Company, the Upjohn Company, the Chrysler Corporation of Detroit, W.W.J. Broadcasting Studio, the New York Times Building of Brooklyn, Century of Progress Building for the Ford Motor Company, Westinghouse, Studebaker Corporation, Murray Corporation, Vickers Incorporated, Ford Motor Company plants, American Blower Company, Chrysler plants, Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Company, and more. There is a more comprehensive list of Albert Kahn buildings in the index, arranged by type: airplane plants, automobile plants, aviation fields and hangars, chemicals and drug manufacturing plants, cigar manufacturing, coal bunkers, creameries, docks, dry kilns, engineering buildings, filtration plants, forge shops, foundries, garages, ice plants, machine shops, office equipment, power plants, steel and stamping, printing and publishing plants, roller bearing, textile plants, banks, exhibition buildings, hotels, office buildings, sales and service, stores, theaters, warehouses, and more. Hardcover, good condition. Unpaginated, approximately 144 pages, quarto.