View of the principal and lateral façades of the Test Cells, United Aircraft Corporation Pratt & Whitney division Aircraft Assembly [?] Plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
United Aircraft Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Test Cells, United Aircraft Corporation Pratt & Whitney division Aircraft Assembly [?] Plant, East Hartford, Connecticut

Date:

1937

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.1 x 23.5 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0292

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in blue ink and by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER STUDIO / Detroit / P702[-]3" [negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is inscribed] labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c.: "STUDIO QUADRANTE s.n.c. / vie [sic] montepulciano [sic] 2-20124 milano [sic]"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, r.: "42" 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 / [UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION / PRATT & WHITNEY DIVISION] / LOCATION / [East Hartford, Connecticut] / DESCRIPTION / [Test House] / DATE TAKEN / [1937] JOB No. / [1509-O] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Forster - P381-3]" [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 negative, l.c.: "THE ENGINE TEST HOUSE REFLECTS IN ITS NOVEL / LINES THE SOUND-PROOFING EFFECTS THAT HAVE / BEEN MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE COMBINED / EFFORTS OF PRATT & WHITNEY, ALBERT KAHN, INC. / AND GOVERNMENT ENGINEERS." numbered - printed, in the negative, l.r.: "D-936"

Location:

East Hartford; Connecticut; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
ladders
industrial complex
industrial building
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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