View of the principal façade of the Administration Building, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division Assembly Plant, Louisville, Kentucky

People:

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

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Administration Building, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division Assembly Plant, Louisville, Kentucky

Date:

April 1943

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.2 x 22.9 cm sheet: 20.0 x 24.8 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0320

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, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 737 N. MICHIGAN AVE. / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 7376-F" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c. to l.r.: "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.: "76" labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c. to c.r.: "NAME OF OWNER [Curtiss-Wright Corpn. / Airplane Div. - Louisville Pl.] / LOCATION [Louisville, Ky.] / DESCRIPTION / [Mfg. & Assembly Pl. - Office] / DATE TAKEN / [Apr. '43] JOB No. / [1923] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 7376-F]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] inscribed and numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "Mfg. / 30ems / by 3 1/2" deep / zinc / 8065" ["Mfg." is circled; "/ 30ems / by 3 1/2" deep / zinc" is circled]

Location:

Louisville; Kentucky; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
windows
walkway
industrial complex
industrial building
administration building
office 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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