View of the principal and lateral façades of the Magnesium Foundry, Wright Aeronautical Corporation Assembly Plant, Fair Lawn, New Jersey

People:

Progress Photo (photographic studio)
Wright Aeronautical Corporation (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Mahony-Troast Construction Company (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Magnesium Foundry, Wright Aeronautical Corporation Assembly Plant, Fair Lawn, New Jersey

Date:

11 April 1941

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp. (approx.): 19.7 x 23.5 cm (7 3/4 x 9 1/4 in.) sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm (8 1/8 x 10 in.)

Reference number:

PH2000:0341

Point of View:

exterior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The edges of the composition are indistinguishable from the sheet.

Inscription:

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 / [WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL CORPORATION] / LOCATION [Fairlawn [sic], New Jersey] / DESCRIPTION / [Magnesium Foundry] / DATE TAKEN / [4-11-41] JOB No. / [1870] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Progress Photo #29]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - in typescript, on a label in the negative, l.c. to l.r.: "NEW MAGNESIUM FOUNDRY / WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL CORPORATION / Fairlawn [sic], N.J. / ALBERT KAHN / Associated Architects and Engineers, Inc. / MAHONY-TROAST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, BUILDERS / April 11, 1941 Photograph #29"

Location:

Fair Lawn; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
industrial complex
outbuilding
industrial building
monitors (roof appendages)
manufacturing building
airplane assembly plant
magnesium founding
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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