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

View of the east façade of the Assembly Building of the Buffalo Airport Assembly Plant at night, Curtiss-Wright Corporation Airplane division, Buffalo, New York

March 1942

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.1 x 23.0 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

PH2000:0298

• exterior view

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c. to l.r.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICATION / PURPOSES CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO / SOL KING, FAIA, ARCHITECT [sic] / AND / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / CONSULTANTS / DETROIT, MICHIGAN" stamped and imprinted - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "If this Photograph is used / for reproduction, kindly use / the following credit line: HEDRICH-BLESSING" [stamp has faded] stamped, imprinted and numbered - in blue ink, on the sheet, verso, l.l.: "HEDRICH-BLESSING / CHICAGO / NEG. No. 6953 S" [negative number is added by a second stamp and appears over an underline from the original stamp] labelled, imprinted, inscribed and numbered - printed and in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, verso, c.: "NAME OF OWNER / [CURTISS WRIGHT CORP. / AIRPLANE DIVISION] / LOCATION [Buffalo Airport Plant] / DESCRIPTION / [Canopy door of final assembly - / North End] / DATE TAKEN [March 1942] JOB No. [1841] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Hedrich-Blessing / 737 N. Michigan Avenue / Chicago #6935-S]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Buffalo; New York; United States;

• architecture
• ingénierie

• entrances
• windows
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• night photography
• monitors (roof appendages)
• manufacturing building
• airplane assembly plant
• airplanes
• factory (structure)