• Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
• Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
• General Motors Corporation (client)

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Engineering Building, General Motors Corporation Automobile Assembly Plant [?], Detroit, Michigan

July 1945

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.0 x 22.9 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

PH2000:0253

• exterior view

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. 8661-S2" [inscribed negative number appears over the stamped underline] 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 / [GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION] / LOCATION / [Detroit, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Research Building] / DATE TAKEN / [July 1945] JOB No. / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich - 8661-S2]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Detroit; Michigan; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• entrances
• windows
• smokestack
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• office building
• skywalk
• automobile assembly plant
• factory (structure)