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Albert Kahn : builder of Detroit / Roger Matuz.
Fine Arts Library NA737.K28 M38 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matuz, Roger.
- Series:
- Great Lakes books
- Detroit biography series for young readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942--Juvenile literature.
- Kahn, Albert.
- Kahn, Albert, 1869-1942.
- Architects--Michigan--Detroit--Biography--Juvenile literature.
- Architects.
- Jews--Biography.
- Michigan--Detroit.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- A biography of the German-born Jewish architect who, from the 1880s through the early 1940s, designed elegant homes, factories for Henry Ford, and industrial plants to support the United States' war effort.
- Contents:
- 1. Hard Work (and a Little Luck) 9
- 2. From Child Prodigy to Child Laborer 15
- 3. A Real Education 25
- 4. Small Things Lead to Bigger Things 35
- 5. "Mr. Kahn, Can You Design ... Factories?" 45
- 6. Work and Play 65
- 7. The Great Depression and War Years 79
- Some of the Kahn-Designed Buildings in Southeastern Michigan 95.
- ISBN:
- 081432956X
- 0814329578
- OCLC:
- 47650653
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