From Seed to Store Shelf: The Heinz Tomato’s Journey, 1900-1930
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In the early 1900s, the H.J. Heinz Company grew and processed tomatoes into a wide variety of products, including canned tomatoes and ketchup, tomato juice, and sauces and soups. These photographs follow Heinz tomatoes from seeds to fields, and factories to store shelves.
In the early 1900s, the H.J. Heinz Company grew and processed tomatoes into a wide variety of products, including canned tomatoes and ketchup, tomato juice, and sauces and soups. These photographs follow Heinz tomatoes from seeds to fields, and factories to store shelves.
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Workers Sorting and Drying Tomato Seeds, circa 1910
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Workers Harvesting Tomatoes at a Heinz Tomato Farm, 1908
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Harvested Tomatoes Hauled in Wagons to Dock for Shipping, circa 1910
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Preparing Harvested Tomatoes for Shipping, H. J. Heinz Company, circa 1910
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Workers Stacking Baskets of Harvested Tomatoes, circa 1910
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Shipping Tomatoes by Boat, H. J. Heinz Company, Salem, New Jersey, circa 1910
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Tomatoes Coming into the H. J. Heinz Main Plant, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1920
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Advertising Layout Photograph Showing Heinz Employees Filling Bottles of Tomato Ketchup, April 29, 1912
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Boxes of Ketchup Bottles Ready for Labeling at the H. J. Heinz Factory, circa 1900
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The First Heinz Tomato Ketchup Shipment of Year for the Bowling Green, Ohio Factory, 1923
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Making Cream of Tomato Soup at the H. J. Heinz Company, 1921
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Employees Filling and Weighing Cans, H. J. Heinz Company, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1900
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Employee Moving Boxes of H. J. Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, circa 1920
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Grocery Store Sale Baskets of Various Heinz Products, circa 1930
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