View of the rear [?] façade of a warehouse, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Airplane Assembly [?] Plant, Plymouth, Michigan

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the rear [?] façade of a warehouse, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Airplane Assembly [?] Plant, Plymouth, Michigan

Date:

June 1938

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.1 x 23.0 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0286

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c. to l.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICATION / PURPOSES CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / Detroit, Michigan" stamped and imprinted - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use / the following credit line: HEDRICH-BLESSING" stamped, imprinted and numbered - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 4803 G2" [negative number is added by a second stamp and appears over an underline from the original stamp] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c. to c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [KELVINATOR CORPORATION] / LOCATION [Plymouth, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Warehouse] / DATE TAKEN / [Built 1936 / June 1938] JOB No. / [1735] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 4803-G2]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "93/0"

Location:

Plymouth; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
automobile
industrial complex
warehouse
loading dock
industrial building
platform
monitors (roof appendages)
trucks
airplane 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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