Table Display of Heinz Products, circa 1930

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Artifact Overview

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 Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1930

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.263

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Sepia (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in