Photomontage Showing the Heinz Pickling Department, May 12, 1909

THF293137 / Photomontage Showing the Heinz Pickling Department, May 12, 1909
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Artifact Overview

Photographs of the H.J. Heinz factory -- including buildings, employees, and the manufacturing process -- were often taken and then modified for advertising and publications. This advertising layout features several modified photographs of female employees processing pickles. The arrangement of these photos is meant to provide a visual representation of the building and the pickle department where processing occurs.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photomontage

Subject Date

12 May 1909

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.1163

Credit

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

Material

Illustration board
Ink
Paint (Coating)
Pencil (Marking material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Handwriting
Overpainting (Technique)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 17 in
Width: 23.25 in

Inscriptions

various artist marks, measurements and notes. written on mount: Bulk Pickle Building / clean up around / building. / Peeling onions - [?] / [?] Mixed Pickles / show plain wall (not tiles) / Page 7 Bulk Pickles / 961-142 / Mixed Pickles / Department / Remove shelves and can wall / clean up wall / [?]. / Counting Pickles / clean up wall and floor / make benches look white / Processing / and sorting / Holland Mich. / shows pickles in center of floor (as indicated in layout) / clean up floor / make room look white / and airy. [?] / [?]
Photomontage Showing the Heinz Pickling Department, May 12, 1909