Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for the Assembly Building, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Long Beach, California

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)
Clinton Construction Co. (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for the Assembly Building, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Long Beach, California

Date:

ca. 1925 or after

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing
presentation drawing (proposal)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 11.9 x 22.3 cm sheet: 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0198

Drawing Type:

rendering
perspective drawing

Point of View:

bird's-eye view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: with title and "Job No. 1347 / Erected 1926"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, l.r.: "26" labelled, numbered and inscribed - by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.l.: "26 / BUL" [with a line in between the number and text]; and "MEZZATINT[N] / 50%" [with a line in between the text and the number] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "ALBERT KAHN INC. ARCHTS."

Location:

Long Beach; California; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ships
architectural drawing
water tower
industrial complex
industrial building
railroad bridge
train (vehicle grouping)
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
factory (structure)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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