View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Todd Shipyards Corporation Assembly Plant, Hoboken, New Jersey

People:

Tri-Boro Photos (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Todd Shipyards Corporation (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Manufacturing Building, Todd Shipyards Corporation Assembly Plant, Hoboken, New Jersey

Date:

1943

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.9 x 23.7 cm sheet: 20.5 x 25.2 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0470

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in red ink, on the sheet, verso, c.: "TRI-BORO PHOTOS, Inc. / 186 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, N.Y. / Phone: TRIangle 5-2357 / [illeg.]" [text is surrounded by a thin box; most of the stamp is covered by a label] stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "[This] photograph not for / release without approval / of U.S. Navy Department / Todd Shipyards Corporation" [text is surrounded by a thin box; "[This]" is covered by a label] 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 [Tietjen & Lang Dry Docks Co. / Todd Hoboken Dry Docks] / LOCATION / [Hoboken, N.J.] / DESCRIPTION [Plate & Fabricating Shop / Houses a mold loft, a furnace room, plate, tin, pipe / and blacksmith shops. Equipped with latest mech. / devices to ease heavy work & modern locker & wash rooms [sic] for the employees.] / DATE TAKEN / [1943] JOB No. / [1876-A] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Owner]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Hoboken; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
industrial complex
tracks
industrial building
assembly plant
cranes
monitors (roof appendages)
manufacturing building
trucks
factory (structure)
dry dock

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

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