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Catalog Number
2018.9.5
Date of Origin
1949
Artist/Author
none
Materials
paper
Dimensions
5.5 in.
Description
Yellow program with black letters.  On the front, the following caption appears"Heinz 57 26th Annual Heinz Picnic For the Holland Factory Employees Families and Friends/Held at Tunnel Park/Saturday, July 16, 1949".
History
In 1896 an agent from the H. J. Heinz Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania traveled to west Michigan looking for a place to build a processing factory. Eventually Holland, MI was chosen due to the soil, harbor access and the lobbying of local businessmen (including William Beach, Gerrit J. Diekema, Arend Visscher and Oscar E. Yates).

By 1898 a three-story factory went up on west 16th Street on Black Lake (Lake Macatawa) known as branch No. 7 (1903, 1914 city directories). John J. Baxa (1874-1967) was Holland's manager in 1906 through 1914, followed by James A. Hoover (1872-1957) from approximately 1921 to 1940 and Charles B. McCormick (1897-1977) from approximately 1945 to 1961 (Holland city directories).

Gift of
Dykstra, Bob