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Advertising Layout Photograph of a Heinz Employee Using a Bottle Labeling Machine, circa 1910

THF292952 / Advertising Layout Photograph of a Heinz Employee Using a Bottle Labeling Machine, circa 1910
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Artifact Overview

Before complete mechanization of the manufacturing process, many tasks at the Heinz factory were done by hand. Photographs of this process were often taken and then modified for advertising and publications. Pictured here is an employee using a bottle labeling machine.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

circa 1910

Creator Notes

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

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.789

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

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 14 in
Width: 11 in

Advertising Layout Photograph of a Heinz Employee Using a Bottle Labeling Machine, circa 1910