Interior view of the Manufacturing Building showing a worker using a forklift [?], General Motors Corporation Delco Appliance division Assembly Plant, Rochester, New York

People:

Robert Damora (photographer)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Interior view of the Manufacturing Building showing a worker using a forklift [?], General Motors Corporation Delco Appliance division Assembly Plant, Rochester, New York

Date:

October 1938

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.1 x 21.8 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0429

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "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, r.: "46" labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c. to c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [DELCO APPLIANCE DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION [Rochester, New York] / DESCRIPTION / [Manufacturing Building] / DATE TAKEN [October 1938] JOB No. [1765] / PHOTOGRAPHER [R. M. Damora - 333 E. 43rd St., NYC / 353-C-3 / File N.]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Rochester; New York; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
ceiling fixtures
industrial complex
industrial building
pipes (conduits)
machinery
trusses
monitors (roof appendages)
manufacturing building
appliances assembly plant
forklift truck
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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