Aerial [?] view of the Assembly Building, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Edgewater, New Jersey

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)
Turner Construction Company (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Aerial [?] view of the Assembly Building, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Edgewater, New Jersey

Date:

4 September 1930

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.2 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0205

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on 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" stamped, imprinted and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / M645[8-1]" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed; the 8 is written over a stamped 9] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c. to c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [FORD MOTOR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Edgewater, New Jersey] / DESCRIPTION [General view of Assembly Plant with / 26, 000 [sic] volt sub-station and parking / space standards in foreground] / DATE TAKEN [September 1930] JOB No. [1501] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [No. 190 / Forster Studio - M6458-1]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] numbered - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.l.: "#1307" imprinted, inscribed, numbered and dated - in typescript and by an unknown hand, on a label attached to the negative, l.r.: "FORD MOTOR CO. / EDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY / ALBERT KAHN INC. ARCH. & ENG. / TURNER CONSTRUCTION CO. BUILDERS / NO. [190] DATE [9-4-1930]" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription]

Location:

Edgewater; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
ships
smokestack
automobiles
industrial complex
industrial buildings
port
trains (vehicle groupings)
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
power plant
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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