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

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, General Motors Corporation Saginaw Malleable Iron division Assembly [?] Plant, Danville, Illinois

April 1945

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.1 x 22.9 cm sheet: 19.9 x 24.6 cm

PH2000:0479

• 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. 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"

Danville; Illinois; United States;

• architecture

• entrances
• chimneys (architectural elements)
• windows
• walkways
• ironworks
• smokestack
• industrial complex
• outbuildings
• industrial building
• tanks (containers)
• assembly plant
• boiler house
• factory (structure)