View of the principal façade of the addition to the Assembly [?] Building, United Aircraft Corporation Chance-Vought Airplane division Assembly Plant, Stratford, Connecticut

People:

Progress Photo (photographic studio)
United Aircraft Corporation (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Edwin Moss & Son, Inc. (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the addition to the Assembly [?] Building, United Aircraft Corporation Chance-Vought Airplane division Assembly Plant, Stratford, Connecticut

Date:

31 July 1944

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 17.0 x 22.6 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0347

Point of View:

exterior view

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 / [UNITED AIRCRAFT CORPORATION / CHANCE-VOUGHT AIRCRAFT DIVISION] / LOCATION / [Stratford, Connecticut] / DESCRIPTION [Two Story Factory Extension] / DATE TAKEN / [7/31/44] JOB No. / [1804-G] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Progress Photo #CV 15607]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] imprinted, numbered and dated - in typescript and black ink, on the sheet, l.l. to l.r.: "CV 15607 TWO STORY FACTORY EXTENSION-CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, / DIVISION OF UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP.. [sic] OWNERS: ALBERT / KAHN, INC., ARCHITECTS; EDWIN MOSS & SON, INC., CON- / TRACTORS; JOB NO. 18049-NAVY NOa-1019 7/31/44"

Location:

Stratford; Connecticut; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
fence
chimney (architectural element)
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
addition
manufacturing 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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