View of the south façade of Building No. 85 of Plant A, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Roller Bearings Plant, Bristol, Connecticut

People:

Unknown (photographer)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
General Motors Corporation (client)

Title:

View of the south façade of Building No. 85 of Plant A, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Roller Bearings Plant, Bristol, Connecticut

Date:

25 October 1943

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.0 x 22.9 cm sheet: 20.4 x 25.3 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0247

Point of 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 / [NEW DEPARTURE DIV. / General Motors Corpn.] / LOCATION [Bristol, Conn.] / DESCRIPTION / [Plant "A" / South elev. of Bldg. #85 looking north] / DATE TAKEN [10-25-43] JOB No. [1897-Rev.#1] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Owner 8085-A]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] numbered and dated - by an unknown hand, in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "8085-17 10/25/43" [sideways]

Location:

Bristol; Connecticut; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fences
windows
flag-pole
industrial complex
industrial buildings
smokestacks
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
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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