View of the water tower from the east façade of the Boiler House, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Automobile [?] Assembly Plant, Sandusky, Ohio

People:

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

Title:

View of the water tower from the east façade of the Boiler House, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Automobile [?] Assembly Plant, Sandusky, Ohio

Date:

February 1949

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.4 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.2 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0275

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 DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION / [Sandusky, Ohio] / DESCRIPTION / [Western Manufacturing Plant - / Elevated Water Storage Tank & Tank From [sic] in Court; / East Elevation of Boiler House & Electrical Sub / Station in Background.] / DATE TAKEN [Feb. 1949] JOB No. [1977-E, C & B] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich - 122044-D2 / Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Sandusky; Ohio; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
stairs
windows
water tower
industrial complex
industrial buildings
tanks (containers)
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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