View of a courtyard showing the Manufacturing Building, Pump House and Chip Hopper, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Automobile [?] Assembly Plant, Sandusky, Ohio

People:

Robert R. Frissell, Inc. (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
General Motors Corporation (client)

Title:

View of a courtyard showing the Manufacturing Building, Pump House and Chip Hopper, General Motors Corporation New Departure division Automobile [?] Assembly Plant, Sandusky, Ohio

Date:

June 1947

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.7 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0274

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 / [NEW DEPARTURE DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION [Sandusky, Ohio] / DESCRIPTION / [Western Manufacturing Plant - / Pump House & Chip Hopper / Court Area] / DATE TAKEN [June 1947] JOB No. [1977-C] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Robert R. Frissell, Inc. / 1531 First Street, Sandusky, O. / P.P. #372]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Sandusky; Ohio; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

stairs
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
industrial complex
tracks
industrial buildings
automobile assembly plant
manufacturing building
hopper
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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