View of the principal [?] façade of the Assembly Building, General Motors Corporation Linden division Automobile Assembly Plant, Linden, New Jersey

People:

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

Title:

View of the principal [?] façade of the Assembly Building, General Motors Corporation Linden division Automobile Assembly Plant, Linden, New Jersey

Date:

late 1937

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.8 x 18.1 cm sheet: 25.3 x 20.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0240

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed, dated and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, c.l. to l.l.: "NAME OF OWNER [General Motors Corp.] / LOCATION [Linden, N.J.] / DESCRIPTION [Office [sic]] / DATE TAKEN [Late 1937] JOB No. [1734] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Robb [sic] M. Damora #515-B-3]" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form; sideways]; and by the same hand, below the stamped form: "247 Park Ave. / N.Y.C."

Location:

Linden; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stairs
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
automobile assembly plant
manufacturing building
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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