Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for or of the Tractor Assembly Plant, Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Soviet Union (now in Russia)

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for or of the Tractor Assembly Plant, Stalingrad (now Volgograd), Soviet Union (now in Russia)

Date:

ca. 1930 or after

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 12.7 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.3 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0206

Drawing Type:

rendering
perspective drawing

Point of View:

bird's-eye view
exterior view

Inscription:

imprinted - in the image, l.l.: "STALINGRADSKII TRACTORNYI ZAVOD / AL'BERT KAN INK. / ARKHITEKTOR / DETROIT MISH. S.SH.S.A." [STALINGRAD TRACTOR PLANT / ALBERT KAHN INC. / ARCHITECT DETROIT MICH. / USA] [architect's stamp] 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 and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c. to c.l.: "U.S.S.R. / Stalingrad, Russia / Tractor Plant / (Erected 1930)"

Location:

Volgograd; Russia (Federation);

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

smokestack
roads
architectural drawing
industrial complex
industrial buildings
administration building
office building
boiler house
trains (vehicle groupings)
monitors (roof appendages)
crawler tractor assembly 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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