Interior view of assembly lines in the Assembly Building, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Mexico City, Mexico

People:

Guillermo Kahlo (photographer)
Ford Motor Company (role unspecified)

Title:

Interior view of assembly lines in the Assembly Building, Ford Motor Company Automobile Assembly Plant, Mexico City, Mexico

Date:

1932

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.4 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0234

Point of View:

interior 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 / [FORD MOTOR COMPANY] / OCATION [Mexico, D.F.] / DESCRIPTION / [Assembly Plant] / DATE TAKEN [1932] JOB No. [1589] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.l.: "[K]AHLO, foto." labelled, imprinted and dated - in typescript, on a label attached to the negative, l.r.: "Ford Motor Co.-S,A.-1932 / Mexico, D.F. / Albert Kahn, In. Arch. & Eng"

Location:

Mexico City; Mexico;

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ceiling fixtures
industrial complex
industrial building
machinery
trusses
automobile assembly plant
monitor (roof appendage)
manufacturing building
assembly lines
conveyors
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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