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Aerial view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac division, Wilmington, Delaware
Aerial view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac division, Wilmington, Delaware
People:
  • General Motors Photographic (photographic studio)
  • General Motors Corporation (client)
  • Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Title:

Aerial view of the Automobile Assembly Plant, General Motors Corporation Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac division, Wilmington, Delaware

Date:

17 May 1948 or before

Form:
photographs
Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)
Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 11.2 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.4 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0264

Point of View:
  • aerial view
  • exterior view
Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c. to l.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICATION / PURPOSES CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / Detroit, Michigan" [diagonally] 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 / [BUICK-OLDSMOBILE-PONTIAC ASSEMBLY DIV. / GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION] / LOCATION [Wilmington, Delaware] / DESCRIPTION / [Assembly Plant] / DATE TAKEN / [Received 5-17-48] JOB No. [1964] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [GM Photographic - BOP-136 / Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label; "TAKEN" is covered by a series of X's]

Location:

Wilmington; Delaware; United States;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • engineering
Subject Descriptive Terms:
  • chimneys (architectural elements)
  • smokestack
  • water tower
  • industrial complex
  • industrial buildings
  • office building
  • boiler house
  • automobile assembly plant
  • 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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