Advertising Layout Photograph Showing Heinz Employees Weighing Cans, circa 1910

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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 female employees, referred to as "Heinz Girls," in the canning department. On the main table two women are weighing cans of baked beans.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1910

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

53.41.1353

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

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 14 in

Inscriptions

various artists marks, edit notes, and measurements in margins.