Ford Bomber Plant
Title
Ford Bomber Plant
Publisher
Lawrence Technological University
Date Created
September 20, 2018
Alternative Title or Name
Willow Run Bomber Plant
Creator
Kahn, Albert
Creator2
Hedrich-Blessing (Photographer)
Creator Nationality
American
Work Type
Components
Date
1942
Work Location
Michigan (state)
Willow Run (inhabited place)
Subject
draftsmen (people in engineering)
drawing tables (artists' tables)
factories (structures)
interior views
Description
View of draftsmen and engineers, some laying on drafting tables, from Albert Kahn Associates, working on plans in a large, open room at the Ford bomber factory in Willow Run, Michigan. "Iconic architect Albert Kahn designed the complex, which he would later call “the most enormous room in the history of man, a single-story structure of a size never before conceived,”--from "Most enormous room in the history of man': GM Willow Run plant history and facts," by Nathan Bomey in The Ann Arbor News online, December 19, 2010. Printed on back of photograph: Hedrich Blessing Studio 450 East Ohio Street Chicago NEG. No 7074 – E.
Reproduction Type
jpeg
Reproduction Source
b/w photograph: 7 x 9 inches
Copyright Statement
©2013 Lawrence Technological University. These images may be used for personal or educational purposes. They are not available for commercial purposes without the explicit permission of LTU.
ID Number
LTU-AKFB-006
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