• Forster Studio (photographic studio)
• Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
• United Aircraft Corporation (role unspecified)
• Edwin Moss & Son, Inc. (role unspecified)

View of the principal and lateral façades of Hangar No. 2, United Aircraft Corporation Chance-Vought Airplane division Assembly Plant, Stratford, Connecticut

15 March 1944

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 19.2 x 23.0 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.5 cm

PH2000:0346

• exterior view

stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER / STUDIO / 2832 E. GRAND BOULEVARD / DETROIT / File No. A-5991-4" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline; name surrounds an image of an aperture of a camera] 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 / [Chance-Vought Aircraft / Division of United Aircraft Corp.] / LOCATION / [Stratford, Conn.] / DESCRIPTION / [Test Hangar Bldg. #2] / DATE TAKEN [3-15-44] JOB No. [1866-G] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Progress Photo CV-13479 / Forster A-5991-4]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "Bldg. #2" is by an unknown hand, in blue felt pen] imprinted, numbered and dated - in typescript and black ink, in the negative, l.l. to l.r.: "CV-13479 - TEST HANGAR BLDG. NO. 2 - CHANCE VOUGHT AIRCRAFT, DIVISION OF / UNITED AIRCRAFT CORP., OWNERS; ALBERT KAHN, INC., ARCHITECTS; / EDWIN MOSS & SON, INC., CONTRACTORS; NAVY NOa-1019 PHOTO 26 / STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT 3/15/44"

Stratford; Connecticut; United States;

• architecture

• windows
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• tanks (containers)
• overhead doors
• floodlights
• airplane assembly plant
• hangar
• factory (structure)