View of the Pump House and water tanks, Chrysler Corporation Jet Engine Plant (now Daimler Chrysler-Warren Truck Plant), Mound and Nine Mile Roads, Sterling Heights, Michigan

People:

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

Title:

View of the Pump House and water tanks, Chrysler Corporation Jet Engine Plant (now Daimler Chrysler-Warren Truck Plant), Mound and Nine Mile Roads, Sterling Heights, Michigan

Date:

March 1954

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 23.0 x 18.3 cm sheet: 25.4 x 20.8 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0400

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, c.l.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / IS USED FOR REPRODUCTION, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / DESIGNED BY / Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc." stamped and imprinted - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c. to l.l.: "If this Photograph is [used] / for reproduction, kindly use the / following credit line: / SUTER, HEDRICH - BLESSING" stamped, imprinted and numbered - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO/ CHICAGO / NEG. No. 17180 O" [negative number is added by a second stamp and appears over an underline from the original stamp] 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 / [OPERATOR / CHRYSLER CORPORATION] / LOCATION / [Macomb County [sic] (Detroit), Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Chrysler Jet Engine Plant / Pump House & Water Storage Tanks / (2 - 250,000-Gal. Domestic Tanks & 2 - 250,000-Gal. / Fire Protection Tanks) / (Naval Industrial Reserve Aircraft Plant)] / DATE TAKEN / [March 1954] JOB No. [2071-M] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 17180-O]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "OWNER" is covered by a series of X's; sideways]

Location:

Sterling Heights; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
ladders
industrial complex
industrial building
tanks (containers)
conveyors
airplane engine assembly plant
pump (machinery) building
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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