The Campbell Soup Company was started in 1869 by Joseph A. Campbell,
a fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Abraham Anderson, an
icebox manufacturer from South Jersey. They produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups, condiments, and minced meats.

In 1876, Anderson left the partnership and the company became known
as the Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company".

Canned soups and related products are sold by Campbell’s in 120
countries around the world.

Joseph Albert Campbell
(May 15, 1817 – March 27, 1900)

Entrance to Campbell’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey.

President Lyndon B. Johnson (left) signed Medicare, a health insurance
program for elderly Americans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony,
which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri,
former President Harry Truman (seated right) was enrolled as Medicare’s
first beneficiary receiving the first Medicare card.         

Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become the first
president to propose national health insurance, an initiative that was
opposed at the time by Congress.

President Lyndon Johnson (left) and President Harry S. Truman
shake hands at the Medicare Bill Signing.