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Advertising Layout Photograph of Employees Filling Ketchup Bottles at the Heinz Company Branch in Salem, New Jersey, December 3, 1913

THF292759 / Advertising Layout Photograph of Employees Filling Ketchup Bottles at the Heinz Company Branch in Salem, New Jersey, December 3, 1913 / inside
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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 ketchup bottles.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

03 December 1913

Creator Notes

Made by Bartlett-Orr Press for H. J. Heinz Company.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.1603

Credit

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

Material

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

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Handwriting
Mounting
Overpainting (Technique)

Color

Sepia (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 14 in

Inscriptions

various artists notes, marks, and measurements in margins. written on front: Page 35 / Filling Ketchup Salem NJ Branch / Factory written on back: H. J. Heinz Co. / Filling Ketchup Salem N.J. / Growth of a Great Mk. Book