View of the principal façade of the Administration Building and Iron Foundry, General Motors Corporation Saginaw Malleable Iron division Assembly [?] Plant, Danville, 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 Administration Building and Iron Foundry, General Motors Corporation Saginaw Malleable Iron division Assembly [?] Plant, Danville, Illinois

Date:

April 1945

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.2 x 22.9 cm sheet: 19.9 x 24.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0478

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "Kindly return this Photograph / when it has served your purpose / ALBERT KAHN, INC., Detroit" stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICA- / TION PURPOSES CREDIT SHOULD BE GIVEN / TO THE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS. / ALBERT KAHN / Associated Architects and / Engineers, Inc. Detroit, Michigan" [diagonally] stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / IS USED FOR REPRODUCTION, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / DESIGNED BY / Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc." stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 450 EAST OHIO STREET / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 8220-A" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] labelled, imprinted, dated, inscribed and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [SAGINAW MALLEABLE IRON Div. / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION / [Danville, Illinois] / DESCRIPTION / [Office and Foundry] / DATE TAKEN / [April 1945] JOB No. / [1947-& A] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 8330-A]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, u.r.: "#574"

Location:

Danville; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
ironworks
automobiles
industrial complex
industrial building
administration building
office building
assembly plant
vent
train (vehicle grouping)
trucks
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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