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

View of the principal [?] façade of Axle Plant No. 5, General Motors Corporation Pontiac Motor division Axel [?] Assembly Plant, Pontiac, Michigan

18 November 1947

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 18.9 x 23.5 cm sheet: 20.7 x 25.4 cm

PH2000:0497

• 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 / ALBERT KAHN ASSOCIATES / ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS / Detroit, Michigan" 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. 83112-6 / please refer to this number / when ordering prints" [text is surrounded by a box; "PLEASE GMP CREDIT" appears above the box; negative number is added by a second stamp] 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 [Axle Plant #5] / DATE TAKEN / [11-18-47] JOB No. / [1402-AF] / PHOTOGRAPHER / [GM Photographic 83112-6 / (PP #75)]" [text in square parentheses indicates typescript within printed form of label]

Pontiac; Michigan; United States;

• architecture

• entrances
• windows
• industrial complex
• tracks
• loading docks
• industrial building
• monitor (roof appendage)
• factory (structure)
• axel assembly plant