Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for or of the South Manufacturing Building, Wright Aeronautical Corporation Airplane Engine Plant, Paterson, New Jersey

People:

Manning Bros. (photographic studio)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Wright Aeronautical Corporation (role unspecified)

Title:

Photograph of a bird's-eye perspective drawing for or of the South Manufacturing Building, Wright Aeronautical Corporation Airplane Engine Plant, Paterson, New Jersey

Date:

13 November 1941

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawing

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 14.1 x 23.6 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0333

Drawing Type:

rendering
perspective drawing

Point of View:

bird's-eye view

Inscription:

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.l.: "MANNING BROS., INC. / COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHERS / 133 STATE ST. - FIFTH FLOOR / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" 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 / [WRIGHT AERONAUTICAL CORPORATION] / LOCATION / [Paterson, New Jersey] / DESCRIPTION / [South Manufacturing Building] / DATE TAKEN / [November 13, 1941] JOB No. / [1880-D] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Manning Bros. - 145195]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] imprinted - printed, in the negative, l.r.: "ALBERT KAHN - ASSOCIATED ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS - INC." [text is underlined] numbered - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "145195"

Location:

Paterson; New Jersey; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
fence
windows
architectural drawing
industrial complex
industrial building
monitors (roof appendages)
manufacturing building
overhead doors
trucks
airplane engine 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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