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
Creators
Place of Creation
Collection Title
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"
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