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

They keep the milk cool

Two of the large, glass-lined, brine-cooled tanks in a Kraft plant. The tested milk, received early in the morning from neighboring farms, is held in these huge tanks during the few hours which must elapse before it is made into cheese. The tanks are thoroughly cleaned and sterilized every day, at the conclusion of cheese making operations.

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