The Upjohn Photo Lab started with the activities of Don Braymer in about 1948. It became a full-time job for Don in 1951. The department grew to 4 people and was eventually transferred from Mechanical Engineering to Public Relations in 1971.

The information below was provide by Michael Beltz. I can remember being part of a video production in Building 189 during the 2010s.

Building 189, at the corner of Portage Rd and Lansing Rd, was built in the 1950s as a medical clinic for two brothers who were doctors,Tom and Vic Berglund. It became the first Portage Medical Clinic, which later relocated to Centre and Currier Drive.

The Upjohn Company acquired the building in 1969, numbered it Building 189, and initially used it as offices for the Medical Sciences Liaison group.

In the 1980s, a large, architecturally unattractive but functional, studio was added on the north-end and Upjohn Unit 9817, the Upjohn Photo Lab, moved in. They did photography, motion pictures, film processing and photo printing there. Video production was added to the mix in the mid-1980s. The Photo Lab was renamed the Communications Production Services.

In 1995, Upjohn merged with Pharmacia, then Pharmacia & Upjohn became Pharmacia, and in 1999 - along with any other non-pharmaceutical manufacturing operations - Unit 9817 was shut down. In May of that year, ImageStream bought the building and began a video production company that lasted until 2024.

The list of unit personnel below is from a 1994 Upjohn Phone Book.