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…arts & life architec ture A Life In Progress Julie Edgar | Special to the Jewish News Albert Kahn, c. 1939 ALBERT KAHN AND ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS/ALBERT KAHN PAPERS, BENTLEY HISTORICAL LIBRARY, U-M ARCHIVES OF AMERICAN ART, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION CENTER RIGHT: The Ford Motor Company Assembly Building under construction, Edgewater, N.J., c. 1930, photographed by Forster Studio, Detroit. BOTTOM RIGHT: Albert Kahn, Frida Kahlo and Diego R...…
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