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

View of the south and west façades of the Shipping Department warehouse, General Motors Corporation Saginaw Malleable Iron division Assembly [?] Plant, Danville, Illinois

April 1945

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.0 x 22.9 cm sheet: 19.7 x 24.5 cm

PH2000:0481

• exterior view

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "Kindly return this Photograph / when it has served your purpose / ALBERT KAHN, INC., Detroit" ["ALBERT" is stamped on the u.r. corner of the label] 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 REPRODUCT[ION,] / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / DESIGNED BY / Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc." [text in square parentheses is covered by label] 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. 8220-F" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] 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 [Southwest Corner of Plant / Showing Shipping Docks] / DATE TAKEN / [April 1945] JOB No. / [1947] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich 8330-F]" [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

• chimneys (architectural elements)
• windows
• ironworks
• industrial complex
• warehouse
• truck
• loading dock
• industrial building
• assembly plant
• train (vehicle grouping)
• factory (structure)