Employee Weighing Dried Spaghetti in Main Plant, H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1917

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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 an employee weighing dried spaghetti.

Artifact Details

Artifact

Photographic print

Subject Date

1917

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

53.41.662

Credit

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

Material

Paper (Fiber product)

Technique

Gelatin silver process

Color

Sepia (Color)

Dimensions

Height: 8 in
Width: 9.625 in