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H.J. Heinz Portrait

1870/1880

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H.J. Heinz Portrait
  • Title
  • H.J. Heinz Portrait
  • Identifier
  • MSP57.B006.F02.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP57.B006.F02.I01
  • Description
  • In 1869 at age twenty-five, Henry John Heinz (1844-1919), along with two women and a boy, got his start in the basement and two rooms of a small brick house in Sharpsburg, Pennsylvania. There they grated, prepared, and bottled horseradish which was sold only locally. In 1872 E.J. Noble entered the partnership to become Heinz, Noble & Company, and the plant moved to Second Avenue in Pittsburgh. The Panic of 1873, however, eventually caused Heinz, Noble & Company to go bankrupt by 1875. H. J. Heinz began a new business two months later with help from his brother John and his cousin Frederick. In 1888 H. J. Heinz acquired controlling interest in the Company from his brother John, thus establishing the H. J. Heinz Company. The H.J. Heinz Company expanded dramatically in 1890 with the construction of the factory in Allegheny City along Main Street (later called Progress Street) in the North Side section of Pittsburgh. H.J. Heinz died of pneumonia in 1919 at the age of 75, but the H.J. Heinz Company continued to expand and flourish under his sons Howard Heinz (1877-1941), and later H.J. Heinz II (1909-1987). By 1919 the H.J. Heinz Company had over 6,500 employees, 25 branch factories, 85 salting stations, 53 tomato receiving stations, and 111 pickle receiving stations. In 1961 the company set a record with over 300 million dollars in worldwide sales. By 1995 the H.J. Heinz Company's global sales were over $8 billion with almost half coming from its overseas operations and seventy percent from non-Heinz brand products.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Heinz, H.J. (Henry John), 1844-1919.
  • 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
  • No Copyright - United States. The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
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