Aerial view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division, Saginaw, Michigan

People:

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

Title:

Aerial view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Chevrolet division, Saginaw, Michigan

Date:

24 July 1947

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.4 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.3 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0252

Point of View:

aerial 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 / [CHEVROLET-SAGINAW GREY IRON FOUNDRY / DIV. General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION [Saginaw, Mich.] / DESCRIPTION / [Air View] / DATE TAKEN [7-24-47] JOB No. [1430, etc.] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Frank Fulkersin, 1109 W. Kearsley, / Flint, Mich. Neg. #12, Series 1]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] labelled and imprinted - on a label attached to the negative, l.r.: "Fulkersin / Flint"

Location:

Saginaw; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

chimneys (architectural elements)
automobiles
industrial complex
industrial buildings
smokestacks
boiler house
automobile assembly plant
monitors (roof appendages)
aluminum founding
trains (vehicle grouping)
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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