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Packard Automotive Co. Photo Department
While researching other Detroit building history we came across an interesting discovery. The Packard Automobile Co. had a Photo Department. It always makes you wonder what each room in that 3.5 million sq ft factory was used for.
Detroit native Herman Krieger spent the earlier part of his life as a Detroit photographer. He started as a photo clerk (Fromms, on Woodward Ave, Highland Park) and then landed a job at the Packard Automotive Plant in their photo department.
In his bio he sites this as the location of the photo department at the plant.
*Screen shot from Herman Krieger Bio webpage
We dug through some of our archives and found a few images of the “photo department”
*Image copyright of Parker Creative
This image is from inside the “photo department” a few years later after scrappers had stripped this floor down
*Image copyright of Parker Creative
Packard Automotive Photo Department Aerial view
*Image copyright of Parker Creative
Outside of this really cool fact Herman shares his life in Detroit on his webpage Bio Herman Krieger Its defiantly worth checking out
What a fascinating individual!
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