Aerial view of the Automobile Assembly Plant showing the west façades of the Administration Building, the Assembly Building and the Boiler House, Ford Motor Company Lincoln-Mercury division Automobile Assembly Plant, Saint Louis, Missouri

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)

Title:

Date:

October 1948

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.4 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.3 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0224

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [LINCOLN-MERCURY DIVISION / FORD MOTOR COMPANY] / LOCATION [St. Louis, Missouri] / DESCRIPTION / [Assembly Plant] / DATE TAKEN [Oct. 1948] JOB No. [1975] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [From Owner - 86740-27]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r. to c.r.: "86740 / 27" [sideways]

Location:

Saint Louis; Missouri; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
automobiles
water tower
industrial complex
loading dock
industrial buildings
parking lots
skywalk
automobile 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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