View of the principal and lateral façades of the Administration Building and Assembly Building, Fairchild Corporation Ranger Aircraft Engines division Assembly Plant, Farmingdale, New York

People:

Forster Studio (photographic studio)
Stafford R. Meeson (photographer)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)
Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corporation (client)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Administration Building and Assembly Building, Fairchild Corporation Ranger Aircraft Engines division Assembly Plant, Farmingdale, New York

Date:

December 1941

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.4 x 22.3 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0349

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in graphite, on the sheet, verso, l.r.: "FORSTER / STUDIO / 2832 E. GRAND BOULEVARD / DETROIT / File No.A8379" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline; name surrounds an image of an aperture of a camera] labelled, imprinted, dated and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.c. to c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [RANGER] / LOCATION / [Farmingdale, L.I., N.Y.] / DESCRIPTION / [Factory & Office Addn.] / DATE TAKEN / [Dec. 1941] JOB No. / [1843-F] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Stafford R. Meeson, 112-118 W.44th [sic] / St., NYC / Forster - A-8379]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

Farmingdale; New York; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
fences
stairs
windows
smokestack
industrial complex
industrial buildings
administration building
office building
manufacturing building
overhead door
floodlights
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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