Employee Inspecting Noodles in a Spaghetti Drying Room, H. J. Heinz Company Main Plant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1912

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Artifact Overview

Before complete mechanization of the manufacturing process, many tasks at the Heinz factory were done by hand. The H.J. Heinz Company documented the many departments of the manufacturing process through photographs. This photograph shows an employee inspecting noodles in the Spaghetti Drying Room. Behind each of the doors pictured here were drying racks for spaghetti used in Heinz's cooked spaghetti products.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Date Made

1912-1912

Subject Date

1912

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.660

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 7.875 in
Width: 8.25 in

Inscriptions

written on photo front and back: Spaghetti Drying Rooms