Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections

The Human Factor

Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at the Baker Library

• Introduction
• The Exhibition
  • The Request
  • The Response
    • Chapter Introduction
    • Chapter Images
  • The Collection
  • The Medium
  • The Message
  • The Product
  • The Production
  • The Worker
  • The Audience
• Bibliography

Sealed tight in sanitary packages

A view in the packaging room in one of the many Kraft plants throughout the United States. Immediately after pasteurization, these ingenious machines foil-wrap and seal the cheese in air-tight, dust-proof, sanitary packages to protect its purity and freshness. The operation is automatic from beginning to end. This battery packages over 200,000 half-pound units daily.

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