View of the lateral and rear [?] façades of the Aluminum Foundry, General Motors Corporation Buick division Airplane Assembly Plant, Flint, Michigan

People:

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

Title:

View of the lateral and rear [?] façades of the Aluminum Foundry, General Motors Corporation Buick division Airplane Assembly Plant, Flint, Michigan

Date:

October 1943

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.1 x 23.0 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0339

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. 7461-C" [negative number is underlined and added by a second stamp] 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 / [BUICK MOTOR DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION [Flint, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Aluminum Foundry] / DATE TAKEN [October 1943] JOB No. [1913] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich - 7641-C]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Flint; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

chimney (architectural element)
windows
automobile
industrial complex
industrial building
manufacturing building
aluminum founding
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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