Interior view of the addition to the Manufacturing Building, General Motors Corporation Electro-Motive Corporation division Automobile Assembly Plant, McCook, Illinois

People:

Chicago Architectural Photo Co. (photographic studio)
Thorgersen and Ericksen Co., Contractors (role unspecified)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Interior view of the addition to the Manufacturing Building, General Motors Corporation Electro-Motive Corporation division Automobile Assembly Plant, McCook, Illinois

Date:

4 February 1938

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.5 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0241

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL / PHOTOGRAPHING COMPANY / 75 EAST WACKER DRIVE, CHICAGO" [text is surrounded by two black lines] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a label attached to the negative, l.r.: "Addition to Manufacturing Plant. / Electro-Motive Corporation. / Mc Cook [sic], Illinois. / Subsidiary of General Motors Corporation. / Albert Kahn, Inc., Architect. / Thorgersen & Ericksen Co., Contractors. / Taken February 4th 1938. T-3753."

Location:

McCook; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
machinery
trusses
addition
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
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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