View of the principal [?] and lateral façades of the Boiler House, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

People:

Edgar Orr & Co. (photographic studio)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal [?] and lateral façades of the Boiler House, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Date:

May 1948

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.2 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0273

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 / [FORD MOTOR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Atlanta, Georgia] / DESCRIPTION / [Boiler House] / DATE TAKEN [May 1948] JOB No. [1986-A] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Edgar Orr & Co., 11 Pryor St., / Atlanta 3, Ga. / #19]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] labelled and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "Exterior view of Boiler House showing the / entrance, compressor room, smoke stacks, and roof monitor which houses the condensate / and make-up water surge tank." numbered - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "19"

Location:

Atlanta; Georgia; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
ladders
industrial complex
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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