Interior view of the Motor Manufacturing Building showing workers assembling motors, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Assembly Plant, Kenosha, Wisconsin

People:

Hedrich-Blessing (Firm) (photographic studio)
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation (role unspecified)

Title:

Interior view of the Motor Manufacturing Building showing workers assembling motors, Nash-Kelvinator Corporation Assembly Plant, Kenosha, Wisconsin

Date:

September 1943

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.3 x 22.9 cm sheet: 20.0 x 24.7 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0473

Point of View:

interior view

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 and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use the / following credit line: / HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO" stamped, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - in black ink and by an unknown hand in pen and blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING STUDIO / 737 N. MICHIGAN AVE. / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 7396-A" [inscribed negative number appears over stamped underline] labelled, imprinted, dated, inscribed and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c. to c.r.: "NAME OF OWNER / [NASH KELVINATOR CORPORATION] / LOCATION / [Kenosha, Wisconsin] / DESCRIPTION [Motor Assembly Plant] / DATE TAKEN / [Sept. 1943] JOB No. / [1922] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich 7396-A]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]; and by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the label, l.r.: "13" labelled and numbered - by an unknown hand, in red felt pen, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, u.l.: "AK 13"

Location:

Kenosha; Wisconsin; United States;

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

windows
ceiling fixtures
columns (architectural elements)
industrial complex
industrial building
flags
factory (structure)
motor manufacturing building
motors

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Don de Federico Bucci/
Gift of Federico Bucci

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