Boys at Tau Beta Community House, Hamtramck, Michigan, 1920-1935
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The boys here are sitting on the front porch of the Tau Beta Community House in Hamtramck, Michigan. Built in 1928, this settlement house was created to "Americanize" Polish immigrants working at the Dodge Main automobile plant. It offered a day nursery, clinic, library, and gymnasium, and it served as a model for other settlement houses at the time.
The boys here are sitting on the front porch of the Tau Beta Community House in Hamtramck, Michigan. Built in 1928, this settlement house was created to "Americanize" Polish immigrants working at the Dodge Main automobile plant. It offered a day nursery, clinic, library, and gymnasium, and it served as a model for other settlement houses at the time.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
1920-1935
Place of Creation
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
64.167.833.P.62542
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Ford Motor Company.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Linen (Material)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 7.875 in
Width: 11 in
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