View of the principal façade of the Personnel Building, General Motors Corporation Buick division Airplane Engine Assembly Plant, Melrose Park, Illinois

People:

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

Title:

View of the principal façade of the Personnel Building, General Motors Corporation Buick division Airplane Engine Assembly Plant, Melrose Park, Illinois

Date:

February 1942

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 16.8 x 22.8 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0465

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / IS USED FOR REPRODUCTION, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / ALBERT KAHN, Inc., / AS ARCHITECTS" stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use the / following credit line: / HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO" 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. 6902-O" [inscribed negative number appears over the stamped underline] 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 [Buick] / LOCATION [Melrose Park, Ill.] / DESCRIPTION [Airplane Engine Plant - Plant Personnel Bldg.] / DATE TAKEN [Feb. 1942] JOB No. [1883-C] / PHOTOGRAPHER [6902-O] " [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form]

Location:

Melrose Park; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
chimney (architectural element)
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
airplane engine assembly plant
factory (structure)
employees' building

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

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