Heinz Stables Exterior

1899

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Heinz Stables Exterior
  • Title
  • Heinz Stables Exterior
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B001.I02
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B001.I02
  • Description
  • At one time the H.J. Heinz Company had over 150 teams of Percherons operating out of its Allegheny City facilities, currently Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood. The Heinz stables, known as “equine palaces,” were a showplace. They featured steamed heat, elevators that took the horses to specific floors, electrically operated brushes used in brushing the horses, and the finest feed and care available at the time. The first floor was used to store the wagons and on the forth floor there was an open pavilion were the horses were taken to bask in the sunlight and get fresh air. The horse operations were discontinued in the 1920s and replaced by trucks.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • H.J. Heinz Company.
    H.J. Heinz Company (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Stables.
    Stables--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