Aerial view of the General Motors Corporation pavilion showing the surrounding fair expositions, 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois

People:

Unknown (photographer)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Aerial view of the General Motors Corporation pavilion showing the surrounding fair expositions, 1933-1934 Chicago World's Fair, Chicago, Illinois

Date:

1933 or 1934

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.0 x 24.1 cm sheet: 20.5 x 25.5 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0567

Point of View:

aerial view
exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR / PUBLICATION PURPOSES, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO: / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, l.c.: "STUDIO QUADRANTE s.n.c. / vie [sic] montepulciano [sic] 2-20124 milano [sic]"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, r.: "56" labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in typescript and by an unknown hand in graphite, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "General Motors Exhibit - 1933-34 World's Fair, / Chicago, Illinois / [46]" [text in square parentheses is inscribed]

Location:

Chicago; Illinois; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
windows
tower (building division)
auditorium
identification signs
exhibition buildings
world's fair
automobile showroom
roof-tops

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

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