Boys at Tau Beta Community House, Hamtramck, Michigan, 1920-1935

Summary

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

Creators

Unknown

Place of Creation

United States, Michigan, Dearborn 

Collection Title

General Photographs Series 

 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

Connect 3

Discover curious connections between artifacts.

Learn More