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View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, General Motors Corporation Saginaw Malleable Iron division Assembly [?] Plant, Danville, Illinois
People:
  • Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
  • General Motors Corporation (client)
  • Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, 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.: 18.1 x 22.9 cm sheet: 19.9 x 24.6 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0479

Point of View:
  • exterior view
Inscription:

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. 8330-H" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "NO OBJECTION TO PUBLICATION ON GROUNDS OF / MILITARY SECRUITY / 11 AUG 1945 6 / [illeg.] Department, Bureau of Public Relations" [date is added by a second stamp; upside down] 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 / [Boiler House] / DATE TAKEN / [April 1945] JOB No. / [1947-B] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 8330-H]" [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
  • chimneys (architectural elements)
  • windows
  • walkways
  • ironworks
  • smokestack
  • industrial complex
  • outbuildings
  • industrial building
  • tanks (containers)
  • assembly plant
  • boiler house
  • 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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