Putting Pork in Cans

1904

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Putting Pork in Cans
  • Title
  • Putting Pork in Cans
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B004.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B004.I02
  • Description
  • Women adding pork to cans before baked beans were added. The H.J. Heinz Company manufactured tin cans from a piece of flat tin at the Main Plant in Allegheny City, currently Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. The process included stamping and corrugating the tops and bottoms, forming and seaming the bodies, and spinning on the bottoms of the cans without solder. In a few minutes, the finished cans were distributed throughout the Heinz plant to be filled with baked beans, cooked spaghetti, cream soup, or other canned products.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • H.J. Heinz Company.
    Food industry and trade--Employees--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Canning and preservation.
    Women employees--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Heinz Girls.
    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