Please note that Greenfield Village will close at 3 p.m. on July 2-5 to help facilitate Salute to America programming. Thank you for understanding.

H. J. Heinz Company Delivery Trucks outside the Heinz Factory in Berkeley, California, 1930

THF292126 / H. J. Heinz Company Delivery Trucks outside the Heinz Factory in Berkeley, California, 1930
01

Artifact Overview

The H.J. Heinz Company had many transportation methods to transport its "57 Varieties." Cross-country shipments between factories were made by rail while local deliveries were made by teams of horses and later by automobile. In 1910, the company purchased its first gasoline-powered vehicles for deliveries, which would go on to replace all horse-drawn wagon teams by the 1920s.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1930

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.1018

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)
Cardboard

Technique

Gelatin silver process
Mounting

Color

Sepia (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 9.5 in (including mat)
Width: 12 in (including mat)

Inscriptions

written on back: Berkeley Factory / 1930