View of the principal façade of the Machine Shop Department of the Automobile Assembly Building (also known as Building No. 4), Dodge Chicago Plant, Chrysler Corporation Dodge division, Chicago, Illinois

People:

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

Title:

Date:

September 1943

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:

PH2000:0317

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use the / following credit line: / HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO" stamped, imprinted and numbered - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 11195-Q" [negative number is added by a second stamp and appears over an underline from the original stamp] stamped, imprinted, inscribed, dated and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [DODGE CHICAGO PLANT / Division of Chrysler Corporation] / LOCATION [Chicago, Illinois] / DESCRIPTION [Machine Shop, Building #4] / DATE TAKEN [Sept. 1943] JOB No. [1917] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich 7595-D] " [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, under the stamp, l.r.: "5" labelled and numbered - by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.l.: "AK 5"

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
walkways
industrial complex
industrial building
overhead door
machine shop
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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