Ketchup Filling | Historic Pittsburgh

1901

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Title
Ketchup Filling
Identifier
MSP57.B001.I06
Source Identifier
MSP57.B001.I06
Description
H.J. Heinz Company first introduced ketchup in 1876 as a natural, pure product, without any artificial preservatives, a concept that was not very common in the food industry at that time. Many of the glass bottles were blown in nearby Sharpsburg, where the H.J. Heinz Company was originally founded. Today, in the United States, ketchup is found in 97 percent of all households, and four out of five restaurants. More than 1,000 women worked at the H.J. Heinz Company main plant in Allegheny City (currently Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhood) in 1902. Over half, about 56 percent, of the plant’s workers were women. Women who started working at the plant at age fourteen were paid only half the wage paid to boys of the same age for doing the same work. For example, women who packed crackers were paid $.50 for a ten-hour day, while unskilled men laborers whose jobs were to fetch and carry were paid between $1.30 and $1.65 for the same ten-hour day.
Genre
photographs
Subject
H.J. Heinz Company.
Food industry and trade--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Food industry and trade--Employees--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Employment--Women--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
Ketchup.
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
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Rights Holder
Senator John Heinz History Center