Aerial [?] view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division, Baltimore, Maryland

People:

Unknown (photographer)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Aerial [?] view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division, Baltimore, Maryland

Date:

1937

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.3 x 24.3 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0238

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed, dated and numbered - in black ink and by unknown hands in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "NAME OF OWNER [Chevrolet] / LOCATION [Baltimore] / DESCRIPTION [Assembly Plant - / Power House / + Garage] / DATE TAKEN [1937] JOB No. [1672] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Negative in file] " [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form; "- / Power House / + Garage" is by a second hand in black felt pen] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "1031"

Location:

Baltimore; Maryland; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

water tower
industrial complex
industrial buildings
smokestacks
garage
boiler house
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
trucks
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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