Layout for Heinz Baked Beans Advertising Using Webster's Dictionary, 1925

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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. Advertising layouts were a step in the marketing process where the drawing, size, color, and arrangement were taken into consideration before the final advertisement was created. This layout shows an advertisement for Heinz Baked Beans.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Layout (Printer matter)

Subject Date

1925

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.2261

Credit

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

Material

Illustration board
Ink
Pencil (Marking material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Handwriting
Mounting
Overpainting (Technique)

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 23 in
Width: 13.75 in

Inscriptions

advertising reads: Baked / How Webster Defined it / Heinz Oven Baked Beans / with Tomato sauce / 57 written on front [in blue pencil]: [various artists marks and measurements] ladies house journal / womens how [?] / pictorial review / [?] calls may / Hollands Way / Good Housekeeping / Literacy Digest