Advertising Layout Photograph Showing Employees Sterilizing Cans for Heinz Baked Beans, circa 1910

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Artifact Overview

Photographs of the H.J. Heinz factory -- including buildings, employees, and the manufacturing process -- were often taken and then modified for advertising and publications. This advertising layout features modified photographs of women labeling cans of baked beans and men sterilizing the cans in the retorts. This arrangement of photos was featured in the publication, "Growth of a Great Industry."

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1910

Creator Notes

H. J. Heinz commissioned Bartlett-Orr Press to create this photographic layout.

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.1256

Credit

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

Material

Illustration board
Paint (Coating)
Paper (Fiber product)
Pencil (Marking material)

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Handwriting
Mounting
Overpainting (Technique)

Color

Sepia (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 11 in
Width: 14 in

Advertising Layout Photograph Showing Employees Sterilizing Cans for Heinz Baked Beans, circa 1910