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

View of the principal and lateral façades of the Salvage and Incinerator Building, General Motors Corporation Pontiac Motor division Assembly Plant, Pontiac, Michigan

18 November 1947

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.9 x 23.6 cm sheet: 20.8 x 25.5 cm

PH2000:0496

• exterior view

stamped and imprinted - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, l.c.: "IF THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS USED FOR PUBLICATION / PURPOSES CREDIT MUST BE GIVEN TO / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / Detroit, Michigan" [diagonally] stamped, imprinted and numbered - in black ink, on the sheet, verso, u.r.: "PLEASE GMP CREDIT / GENERAL MOTORS / PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION / G.M. RESEARCH BLDG. DETROIT 2, MICH. / no. 83112-1 / please refer to this number / [when or]dering prints" [text is surrounded by a box; "PLEASE GMP CREDIT" appears above the box; negative number is added by a second stamp; text in square parentheses is covered by a label] 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 / [PONTIAC MOTOR DIVISION / General Motors Corporation] / LOCATION / [Pontiac, Michigan] / DESCRIPTION [Salvage & Incinerator Building] / DATE TAKEN / [11-18-47] JOB No. / [1402-W] / PHOTOGRAPHER [GM Photographic 83112-1 / (PP #27)]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Pontiac; Michigan; United States;

• architecture

• windows
• water tower
• industrial complex
• industrial building
• smokestacks
• train (vehicle grouping)
• monitor (roof appendage)
• overhead doors
• factory (structure)
• motor assembly plant
• incinerator building