Interior view of the Assembly Building from the southwest, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Long Beach, California

People:

Inman Company (photographic studio)
Clinton Construction Co. (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)

Title:

Interior view of the Assembly Building from the southwest, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Long Beach, California

Date:

20 December 1929

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.8 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0201

Point of View:

interior 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 and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c. to l.c.: with title and "Job No. 1347 / Erected 1926" imprinted, inscribed, numbered and dated - in typescript and by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "[LOOKING N.E. INSIDE / OF] / Building [ASSEMBLY / FROM S.W. CORNER] / Owner, Ford Motor Company / Long Beach, Calif. / Architect, Albert Kahn, Inc. / Gen'l. Contr., Clinton Const. Co. / Photo No. [141] Date [12-20-'29] / INMAN CO. PHOTO" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription]

Location:

Long Beach; California; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

columns (architectural elements)
industrial complex
industrial building
lumber
trusses
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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