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Packing pork and beans in shipping cartons – Antique Print

Packing pork and beans in shipping cartons, [between 1915 and 1925] — historic photograph
Packing pork and beans in shipping cartons, [between 1915 and 1925]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Workers at a cannery packing pork and beans into shipping cartons, with a Beech-Nut label visible on the box, make this scene a window into food processing in the years between 1915 and 1925. The Detroit Publishing Company, known for commercial and industrial views, produced this glass negative, and its numbering places it within a larger series of factory and food-production subjects. Canned goods like pork and beans were a staple of American grocery shelves in that era, and images like this recorded the growing scale of packaged food manufacturing.

Created / published[between 1915 and 1925]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesProbably related to negatives D420-2718 and D420-2782 to D420-2790. Beech-Nut brand" on carton. Detroit Publishing Co. no. K 2786. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949."
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan715 × 980 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-77280

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