View of the principal façade of the Manufacturing Building, General Motors Corporation Moraine Products Company division Assembly [?] Plant, Dayton, Ohio

People:

Fred Eggert (photographer)
Multi Color (printer)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Manufacturing Building, General Motors Corporation Moraine Products Company division Assembly [?] Plant, Dayton, Ohio

Date:

1938

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.5 x 24.5 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0449

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICA- / TION PURPOSES CREDIT SHOULD BE GIVEN / TO THE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS. / ALBERT KAHN, INC. / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" stamped, imprinted, inscribed, dated and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "NAME OF OWNER [M[or]aine Products] / LOCATION [Dayton, Ohio] / DESCRIPTION [Mfg. Bldg.] / DATE TAKEN [1938] JOB No. [1754 A] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Photo of photo (Job) / This photo by Eggert]" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form]; and by the same hand, underneath the stamp, l.r.: "print by multi-Color"

Location:

Dayton; Ohio; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
smokestack
industrial complex
industrial building
assembly plant
awnings
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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