Grocery Store Sale Baskets of Various Heinz Products, circa 1930
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The H.J. Heinz Company was at the forefront of creative marketing in the manufactured food industry. Its comprehensive advertising strategy included elaborate product displays in local grocery stores where shoppers were greeted with colorful posters and meticulously designed arrangements of canned and jarred products. This photograph shows an example of such product displays.
The H.J. Heinz Company was at the forefront of creative marketing in the manufactured food industry. Its comprehensive advertising strategy included elaborate product displays in local grocery stores where shoppers were greeted with colorful posters and meticulously designed arrangements of canned and jarred products. This photograph shows an example of such product displays.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
circa 1930
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
53.41.672
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of H.J. Heinz Co.
Material
Linen (Material)
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Color
Sepia (Color)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
stamped on back: From L. F. Beaudry / Commercial Photography / 519 Fifth Ave., PGH., PA.
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