View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division Automobile Assembly Plant, Saginaw, Michigan

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
General Motors Corporation (client)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division Automobile Assembly Plant, Saginaw, Michigan

Date:

August 1943

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.8 x 23.3 cm sheet: 19.6 x 25.2 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0249

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / IS USED FOR REPRODUCTION, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / DESIGNED BY / Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc." stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 450 EAST OHIO STREET / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 7552-K" [hand written negative number appears over stamped underline] stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.c. to u.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICA- / TION PURPOSES CREDIT SHOULD BE GIVEN / TO THE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS. / ALBERT KAHN / Associated Architects and / Engineers, Inc. Detroit, Michigan" 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 / [CHEVROLET MOTOR Division of G.M. / Corp.] / LOCATION [Saginaw, Mich.] / DESCRIPTION / [Boiler House] / DATE TAKEN [Aug. 1943] JOB No. [1905-B] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 7552-K]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Saginaw; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
water tower
industrial complex
tracks
industrial building
boiler house
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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