Construction of Vinegar Tank Car

1921

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Construction of Vinegar Tank Car
  • Title
  • Construction of Vinegar Tank Car
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B024.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B024.I02
  • Description
  • H.J. Heinz Company owned about 400 private-rail freight cars, each one painted bright yellow with the company name and the familiar “57” monogram in large green letters on both sides of the cars. The H.J. Heinz Company was the first company to ship vinegar and pickles in tank cars. In 1894 the company designed a 9,950-gallon tank car containing four-inch thick cypress staves (narrow strips forming part of the sides of the outside of the tank car). A typical sign on the sides of the car read, “Loaded with H.J. HEINZ COMPANY AROMATIC MALT VINEGAR for the stores of C.H. Papworth of Syracuse and Watertown.”
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • H.J. Heinz Company.
    H.J. Heinz Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Vinegar Tank Car.
    Tank-cars.
    Vinegar--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    North Side (Pittsburgh, Pa.)
  • Source
  • H.J. Heinz Company, Photographs, 1864-1991, MSP 57, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • H.J. Heinz Company Photographs
  • Rights Information
  • In Copyright. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).. Rights Holder: Senator John Heinz History Center
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  • Rights Holder
  • Senator John Heinz History Center