View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House of the Buffalo Airport Assembly Plant, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division, Buffalo, New York

People:

Geo. A. Ostertag (photographer)
Curtiss-Wright Corporation (role unspecified)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House of the Buffalo Airport Assembly Plant, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division, Buffalo, New York

Date:

8 September 1941

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.8 x 23.5 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0296

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, c.: "GEO. A. OSTERTAG / COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHER / 226 FRANKLIN ST. / BUFFALO, N.Y." [upside down] labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed in black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c.: "STUDIO QUADRANTE s.n.c. / vie [sic] montepulciano [sic] 2-20124 milano [sic]"; and by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on the label, r.: "74" 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 Div.] / LOCATION [Buffalo Airport Plant] / DESCRIPTION [Boiler House] / DATE TAKEN [9/8/41] JOB No. [1841-B] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Progress Photo #70]" [text in square parentheses indicates inscription within stamped form] numbered - by an unknown hand, in pen and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, c.: "#70" [upside down and diagonally]

Location:

Buffalo; New York; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
water tower
industrial complex
loading dock
industrial building
smokestacks
boiler house
container cars
airplane 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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