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

View of the south façade of the General Motors Corporation’s Saginaw Malleable Iron Plant, with employees' entrance and door to maintenance and pattern shop, Danville, Illinois, United States

April 1945

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.2 x 22.9 cm sheet: 19.8 x 24.6 cm

PH2000:0480

• 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" [diagonally] 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-D" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline; "D" is over written by an unknown hand in black felt pen] 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 / [SAGINAW MALLEABLE IRON Div. / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION / [Danville, Illinois] / DESCRIPTION / [South Side of Plant Showing / Employees' Entrance and / Door to Maintenance and Pattern Shop] / DATE TAKEN [April 1945] JOB No. [1947] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 8330-D]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Danville; Illinois; United States;

• architecture

• entrances
• windows
• ironworks
• industrial complex
• truck
• industrial building
• assembly plant
• vent
• train (vehicle grouping)
• manufacturing building
• overhead doors
• factory (structure)