Beech-Nut Packing Company: The Family Album
Content Description
This collection consists of a three-volume set of binders containing photographic prints and newspaper clippings from Beech-Nut Packing Company history. Beech-Nut Packing had a plant in Rochester from 1912 to 1970. Materials in the collection range from 1913 to 1966.
Dates
- Other: 1913-1966
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions regarding access to or use of the collection.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, or use in any current or future manifestations must be obtained in writing from the Rochester Public Library Local History and Genealogy Division.
Biography
The Beech-Nut Packing Company was a food manufacturer and distributer based in the Mohawk Valley. Founded in 1891 as the Imperial Packing Company and incorporated in 1899, Beech-Nut produced pre-packaged goods such as: chewing tobbacco, candies, mints, gum, canned foods, peanut butter and later, baby food. A plant opened in Rochester in 1912 which produced coffee amid a range of other products. In 1956, the company merged with Life Savers Limited (forming Beech-Nut Life Savers) and then merging again to form Squibb Beech-Nut Corporation in 1968. The Rochester plant closed in 1970. The baby food part of the business was sold to lawyer Frank C. Nicholas in 1973, and was ultimately bought by the Swiss firm Hero Group in 2005.
Extent
2 Volumes (Two binders. ) ; 10 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
This collection consists of 2 binders.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Found in collections 2022.
Bibliography
"Corporations: New Wrapper" https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,862268,00.html; accessed March 12th 2024.
"Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929" https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=amrlg&fileName=lg05page.db&recNum=31&itemLink=r%3Fammem%2Fcool%3A%40field%28DOCID%2B%40lit%28lg05%29%29%23lg05001&linkText=1; assessed March 12th 2024.
"Our Story." https://www.beechnut.com/our-story/; accessed March 12, 2024.
Condition Description
All material is in good condition. All materials have been rehoused in archive-safe material.
- Title
- A Guide to Beech-Nut Packing Company: The Family Album.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Owain Gray, Brandon Fess
- Date
- 2024-03-12
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Local History & Genealogy Division Repository
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Rochester 14604 USA
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