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Employee Using Bottle Capping Machine, H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1901

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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 the capping process where an employee must align individual bottles to be capped by a machine.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1901

Place of Creation

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

89.447.48

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford. Gift of Heinz U.S.A.

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 10 in
Width: 8 in

Inscriptions

written on back sticker: Bottle capping machine / 1901 / H. J. Heinz Company written on photo: 23 1/2" / 73 3/4"
Employee Using Bottle Capping Machine, H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1901