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Advertising Layout Promoting Heinz Products as "Safe To Buy" Food, circa 1910

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Artifact Overview

The H.J. Heinz Company employed ambitious and comprehensive advertising strategies to meet consumers at home, in stores, and everywhere in between. Drawings, illustrations and modified photographs of Heinz products were often used for advertising and in publications. This advertising layout represents a step in the marketing process where the size and arrangement are taken into consideration before the final advertisement is created.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Illustration (Layout feature)

Subject Date

1910

Creator Notes

H. J. Heinz Company commissioned the Bartlett-Orr Press to create this advertisement draft/mock-up.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.1355

Credit

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

Material

Illustration board
Paper (Fiber product)
Tracing Paper

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Mounting
Overpainting (Technique)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10.875 in
Width: 11 in

Inscriptions

pencil markings and measurements in margins. advertisement reads: Anything that's / Heinz [in a pickle] / is Safe to Buy.
Advertising Layout Promoting Heinz Products as "Safe To Buy" Food, circa 1910