View of northeast façade of the Test Cells, Chrysler Corporation Jet Engine Plant (now the Daimler Chrysler-Warren Truck Plant), Mound and Nine Mile Roads, Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States

People:

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

Title:

View of northeast façade of the Test Cells, Chrysler Corporation Jet Engine Plant (now the Daimler Chrysler-Warren Truck Plant), Mound and Nine Mile Roads, Sterling Heights, Michigan, United States

Date:

March 1954

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.8 x 18.2 cm sheet: 25.4 x 20.7 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0401

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, upper right to centre right: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" [sideways] stamped, imprinted and numbered - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, lower left to lower centre: "HedrichBlessing [sic] / 11 West Illinois Street / Chicago, Illinois 60610 / 312/321-1151 / Neg. No. 17180 E / This photograph may be used / only with proper authorization. / When reproduced, please credit. / Hedrich-Blessing" [there is a thin black line between the name of the company and the text; there are two columns of text with the address and negative number on the left and the copyright on the right; the negative number has been added by a second stamp] labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, upper centre.: "STUDIO QUADRANTE s.n.c. / vie [sic] montepulciano [sic] 2-20124 milano [sic]"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, right: "79" labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, upper centre to centre: "Chrysler Corporation Job #2071-F" and with title

Location:

Sterling Heights; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
railings
industrial complex
industrial building
administration building
assembly plant
vents
airplane engine assembly plant

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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