View of the principal and lateral façades of the Personnel Building, General Motors Corporation Truck and Coach division Pontiac Plant, Pontiac, Michigan

People:

Manning Bros. (photographic studio)
General Motors Corporation (client)
Albert Kahn Associated, Inc. Architects and Engineers (role unspecified)

Title:

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Personnel Building, General Motors Corporation Truck and Coach division Pontiac Plant, Pontiac, Michigan

Date:

23 January 1942

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.8 x 23.7 cm sheet: 20.4 x 25.4 cm

Reference number:

PH2000:0265

Point of View:

exterior 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 / [YELLOW TRUCK & COACH MFG. CO.] / LOCATION [Pontiac, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION / [Personnel Building] / DATE TAKEN [1-23-42] JOB No. [1728-G] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [Progress Photo#31 [sic] / Manning Bros. - 145877]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label] inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, u.l. to u.r.: "GMC Truck + Coach Div of G.M.C." numbered - by an unknown hand, in the negative, l.r.: "145877"

Location:

Pontiac; Michigan; United States;

Subject:

architecture
engineering

Subject Descriptive Terms:

entrance
windows
walkway
automobile
industrial complex
industrial building
awning
automobile assembly plant
floodlight
trucks
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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