View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Murray Corporation of America Assembly Plant [?], Detroit, Michigan

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Murray Corporation of America (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Murray Corporation of America Assembly Plant [?], Detroit, Michigan

Date:

1929

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 22.9 x 18.2 cm sheet: 25.1 x 20.2 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0443

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 737 N. MICHIGAN AVE. / CHICAGO / NEG. No.4933-A" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] numbered - by an unknown hand, in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, c.: "[G]ab 1449A" [sideways] numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.: "4933-A" [sideways] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on a "sticky note" piece of paper attached on the sheet, verso, c.: "Booty [sic] Factory / Murray Corporation / of America / Detroit, Mich. / 1929"

Location:

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
fence
chimney (architectural element)
windows
identification sign
industrial complex
industrial building
assembly plant
manufacturing 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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