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

View of the wing connecting the Engineering Building and the Administration Building from the east, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Automobile [?] Assembly Plant, Sandusky, Ohio

February 1949

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.3 x 22.9 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.3 cm

PH2000:0278

• exterior view

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c. to 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" stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, c.l.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / IS USED FOR REPRODUCTION, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / DESIGNED BY / Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc." stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use / the following credit line: / BILL HEDRICH, HEDRICH-BLESSING" stamped, imprinted 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. 12044 A" [negative number is added by a second stamp and appears over an underline from the original stamp] 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 / [NEW DEPARTURE DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION [Sandusky, Ohio] / DESCRIPTION / [Connecting Wing (South Elevation) / Between Engineering Bldg. (left) and / Office Bldg. (right). / Ramp to Executives' Garage] / DATE TAKEN / [Feb. 1949] JOB No. [1977] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich - 12044-A]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Sandusky; Ohio; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• ramp
• automobile
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• office building
• garage
• automobile assembly plant
• engineering building
• wing (building division)
• factory (structure)