View of the south and east façades of the Press Shop [?], Chrysler Corporation Jet Engine Plant (now the Daimler Chrysler-Warren Truck Plant), Mound and 9 Mile Roads, Sterling Heights, Michigan

People:

Copycraft (photographic studio)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the south and east façades of the Press Shop [?], Chrysler Corporation Jet Engine Plant (now the Daimler Chrysler-Warren Truck Plant), Mound and 9 Mile Roads, Sterling Heights, Michigan

Date:

May 1949

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.2 x 22.8 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0399

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in green ink, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "COPYC[illeg.] / INCORPORA[illeg.] / DETROIT 26, MIC[illeg.]" [right half of stamp is not fully visible; sideways] stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICATION / PURPOSES CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / Detroit, Michigan" 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 / [CHRYSLER CORPORATION] / LOCATION / [Mound Road, Macomb County [sic] (Detroit), / Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [NINE MILE [sic] PRESS SHOP / Factory [sic] Building (Southeast Corner) - / Showing One Overhead Door at Truck / Well.] / DATE TAKEN / [May 1949] JOB No. / [2024] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Copycraft, 58 W. Adams, Detroit 26 / 490358-8]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; diagonally] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "490358-8" [sideways] numbered - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "490358-8" numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, on the sheet, l.r.: "490358-8"

Location:

Sterling Heights; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
overhead door
airplane engine assembly plant
truck 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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