View of the principal and lateral façades of a warehouse showing the loading dock and train tracks, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation Assembly Plant, New Orleans, Louisiana

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of a warehouse showing the loading dock and train tracks, Consolidated Aircraft Corporation Assembly Plant, New Orleans, Louisiana

Date:

February 1945

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.2 x 22.9 cm sheet: 20.1 x 24.7 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0327

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed and dated - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "Kindly return this Photograph / when it has served your purpose / [From] ALBERT KAHN, INC., Detroit [5/21/45]" [text in square parentheses indicates handwritten inscription] stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH / IS USED FOR REPRODUCTION, / CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN / DESIGNED BY / Albert Kahn Associated Architects & Engineers, Inc." stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 450 EAST OHIO STREET / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 8070-K" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] stamped, imprinted and dated - in red ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "NO OBJECTION TO PUBLICATION / DEFENSE PLANT CORPORATION / WASHINGTON, D. C. / JUN 1 1945" [date is added by a second stamp; stamp is crossed out by an unknown hand, in blue felt pen] stamped, imprinted and dated - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "No Objection / To Publication / For Reasons of Naval Security / May 29 1945 / Review Sect. (Pictorial) / Office of Public Relation / NAVY DEPARTMENT" [text is surrounded by a square; date is added by a second stamp; sideways] 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 / [Consolidated Aircraft Corporation] / LOCATION [New Orleans, Louisiana] / DESCRIPTION / [Warehouse] / DATE TAKEN / [Feb. '45] JOB No. / [1921-H] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 8070-K]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

New Orleans; Louisiana; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
chimneys (architectural elements)
windows
ramp
industrial complex
warehouse
tracks
loading dock
industrial building
vents
overhead doors
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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