Interior view of the Assembly Building showing workers assembling airplanes, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division Assembly Plant, Buffalo, New York

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn, Inc. (architectural firm)

Title:

Interior view of the Assembly Building showing workers assembling airplanes, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division Assembly Plant, Buffalo, New York

Date:

April 1939

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.2 x 22.8 cm sheet: 19.7 x 24.7 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0295

Point of View:

interior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, c.l. to l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use the / following credit line: / HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO" stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 737 N. MICHIGAN AVE. / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 5170 D" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] stamped, imprinted, inscribed, dated and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in black felt pen, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [Curtiss-Wright Corp. / Airplane Division] / LOCATION [Buffalo, N.Y.] / DESCRIPTION [Assembly Bldg.] / DATE TAKEN [April 1939] JOB No. [1785-A] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich-Blessing 5170D]" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form]; and by the same hand, below the stamped form, l.c. to l.r.: "(Negative in file) / Not to be released for publication / Order of War Dept." numbered - by unknown hands, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "71"; and c.: "5170-D" [diagonally]; in orange pen, u.r.: "71 bis" [circled]; and in red pen, l.l. to l.r.: "cm 12,2" [with publisher's cropping marks]

Location:

Buffalo; New York; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
industrial complex
industrial building
trusses
monitors (roof appendages)
airplane assembly plant
airplanes
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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