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Cheese-Mobile

Date: 1964
Description: Principals in the "world's largest cheese" promotion, study the artist's sketch of the "Cheese-Mobile" that will send the cheese to the New York World's Fa...
Painting

Tractor Trailer for World's Largest Cheese

Date: 1964
Description: The tractor-trailer used to transport and display the world's largest cheese at the 1964 World's Fair held in New York. The 34,591 pound cheddar was made i...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland and World's Largest Cheese

Date: 1964
Description: Alice in Dairyland, and two employees of Steve's Cheese, sample a piece of the World's largest cheese. The gigantic piece of cheese was part of Wisconsin's...
Photograph

Man with Provolone Cheese

Date: 06 05 1967
Description: Mike Cotch standing holding a provoloni with other shapes of provolone cheese including salomini, salame, and madget hanging from the ceiling at the Burnet...
Photograph

Factory Building and Automobile

Date: 09 19 1961
Description: View of the Blum Brothers Company factory building. The Blum Brothers Company once manufactured circular cheese boxes. An automobile is parked outside the ...
Photograph

Hilltop Cheese Factory

Date: 05 30 1964
Description: Landscape view from field of a rolling countryside. A small cheese factory resides on a slope, with a tree, a windmill, two cars and a tractor near an outb...
Photograph

Senators Wiley, Robertson and Jordan with Cheese

Date: 09 27 1962
Description: Senators Wiley (Wisconsin), Robertson (Virginia), and Jordan (North Carolina) posing with a round of blue cheese.
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland

Date: 10 1968
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Bobbie Thoreson, holding a platter of cheese, poses with four men at the World Food Expo.
Photograph

Widmer Cheese Factory

Date: 1960
Description: "Ralph Widmer receives milk at Widmer Cheese Factory."
Photograph

Wisconsin Pavilion Attractions

Date: 1964
Description: Sign outside the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair advertising a steak house, a beer garden, and the world's largest cheese. A portion of the pav...
Photograph

Scouts at Wisconsin Pavilion

Date: 07 09 1965
Description: A group of scouts enjoy a snack at picnic tables outside the Wisconsin Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair. Each scout has a glass of milk and a young woman ...
Postcard

World's Largest Cheese, Made by Steve's Cheese

Date: 1965
Description: Colored postcard view of Mr. & Mrs. Steve Siudzinski, owners of Steve's Cheese, in front of a 34,591 pound block of cheddar cheese draped with prize winnin...
Postcard

Builder of the World's Largest Cheeses

Date: 1960
Description: Steve Siudzinski, owner of Steve's Cheese, standing in front of a vault that is holding a block of cheddar cheese weighing 13,913 lbs, and marked MFD. 1958...
Photograph

Alice in Dairyland at Frigo Cheese Co.

Date: 07 26 1960
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Joan Engh, watching as a man ties a provolone cheese.
Photograph

Chalet Cheese Co-op

Date: 1968
Description: A dairy truck is under an awning at a cheese factory. A sign near the top of the two-story building reads: "Chalet Cheese Co-Op." Field crops are growing b...
Photograph

Cheese Making

Date: 1967
Description: A man is filling hoops with cheese curd and another man is placing the cloths in the hoops at the Stella Cheese Factory.

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