View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, Higgins Aircraft Corporation Airplant Assembly Plant, New Orleans, Louisiana

People:

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

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Boiler House, Higgins Aircraft Corporation Airplant Assembly Plant, New Orleans, Louisiana

Date:

February 1945

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 19.4 x 24.2 cm sheet: 20.6 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0368

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

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 / [HIGGINS AIRCRAFT, INC.] / LOCATION / [New Orleans, Louisiana] / DESCRIPTION [Boiler House] / DATE TAKEN / [Feb. 1945] JOB No. / [1931-B] / PHOTOGRAPHER [Hedrich 8071-GG / Negative in File]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Location:

New Orleans; Louisiana; United States;

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrances
stairs
windows
water tower
industrial complex
conveyor gallery
industrial building
tanks (containers)
smokestacks
boiler house
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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