View of the north and west façades of the Test Cells, General Motors Corporation Buick division Airplane Engine Assembly Plant, Melrose Park, Illinois

People:

Chicago Architectural Photo Co. (photographic studio)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the north and west façades of the Test Cells, General Motors Corporation Buick division Airplane Engine Assembly Plant, Melrose Park, Illinois

Date:

15 October 1943 or before

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.3 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0466

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in red ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "CHICAGO ARCHITECTURAL / PHOTOGRAPHING COMPANY / 75 EAST WACKER DRIVE" labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER [Buick Motor Div.] / LOCATION / [Melrose Park, Ill.] / DESCRIPTION / [28 add'l Test Cells - North and West / elevations] / DATE TAKEN / [Rec'd / 10-15-43] JOB No. [1883-M] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Chicago Arch. Photo. Co. / 75 E. Wacker Dr. / W-338]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "TAKEN" covered by a series of X's] numbered - by an unknown hand, scratched ? in the negative, l.r.: "W 338"

Location:

Melrose Park; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
industrial complex
industrial building
driveway
airplane engine assembly plant
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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