View of the Oil House in the foreground and the water tower and Boiler House in the background, Ford Motor Company Lincoln-Mercury division Automobile Assembly Plant, Metuchen, New Jersey

People:

Ford Photographic (photographic studio)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the Oil House in the foreground and the water tower and Boiler House in the background, Ford Motor Company Lincoln-Mercury division Automobile Assembly Plant, Metuchen, New Jersey

Date:

April 1949 or before

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.9 x 23.9 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0282

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

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 / [LINCOLN-MERCURY DIVISION / FORD MOTOR COMPANY] / LOCATION [Metuchen, New Jersey] / DESCRIPTION [Assembly Plant / Oil House (in foreground) / Boiler House (in background)] / DATE TAKEN [Received Apr. 1949] JOB No. [1988-B / 1988-A] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Ford Photographic - 88029-54]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "TAKEN" is covered by a series of X's]

Location:

Metuchen; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
water tower
industrial complex
warehouse
tracks
loading dock
industrial buildings
boiler house
barrels (containers)
automobile assembly plant
floodlights
factory (structure)

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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