Advertising Layout Photograph Showing Heinz Employees Filling Bottles of Tomato Ketchup, April 29, 1912

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Artifact Overview

Before complete mechanization of the manufacturing process, many tasks at the Heinz factory were done by hand. Photographs of this process were often taken and then modified for advertising and publications. Pictured here are employees filling bottles with ketchup.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

29 April 1912

Creator Notes

H. J. Heinz Company commissioned Bartlett-Orr Press to create this process photograph.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.1334

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of H.J. Heinz Co.

Material

Illustration board
Paper (Fiber product)
Pencil (Marking material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Handwriting
Mounting
Overpainting (Technique)

Color

Sepia (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 14 in

Inscriptions

various artists marks, edit notes, and measurements in margins.