Advertising Layout Photograph of Employee in the Heinz Preserves Department, September 4, 1907

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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 working in the preserves department.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

04 September 1907

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

53.41.1536

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: 14.125 in

Inscriptions

various artists marks, edit notes, and measurements in margins.
Advertising Layout Photograph of Employee in the Heinz Preserves Department, September 4, 1907