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Say Cheese!

Album Description

At the National Council for the Social Studies (#NCSS) conference, when taking a photo, we realized that saying "Primary Sources" does not have the same effect as saying "Cheese." 

The answer?  Say "Primary sources about cheese!"  So, here we have...primary sources about cheese.    

I first wondered when people started using the expression.  It appears that there was a mention of "say cheese" in the January 20, 1943 Big Spring Daily Herald.  (The same article was published later that year in other papers.)

Say Cheese  

Davies was the second U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and he wrote about his work there in Mission to Moscow which was turned into a movie in 1943.  

I was surprised that the origin of "say cheese" took me to Russia. 

National Cheese Day is not until June 4, 2023, but I am sure I will be saying "cheese" before then.  Students might find the origin of this phrase interesting. 

Do you have a favorite primary source about cheese?   

  Pre K - 2   3 - 5   6 - 8   9 - 12   13+   Library   Social Studies/History   Cheese 

Swiss cheese rag

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.100004801/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • A. E. Bohrer, New York, 1913.

Repository

  • Music Division

Map showing the location of the butter and the cheese factories in the State of New York, U.S.A., 1889

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/79693239/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [Albany] : The Commissioner, [1899]

Notes

  • -  Scale ca. 1:633,600.
  • -  Cover title: Map of butter and cheese factories, 1899.
  • -  Indexed.
  • -  Inset: The eastern portion of Long Island.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
  • -  AACR2

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

The book of cheese,

Teaching Notes

I would love to have the title "Investigator of Cheese."

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/18014223/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • New York, The Macmillan company, 1918.

Notes

  • -  Contains bibliographies.
  • -  Also available in digital form.

NEISS - Cheese Injuries.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2020715116/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Bethesda, M.D. : U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, 2018-04-16.

Notes

  • -  Social Media Specialist: Joseph Galbo; Approved by Director of Communications, Joseph "Joe" Martyak Deputy Director of Communications, Patty Davis; CPSC Chairman Ann Marie Buerkle.
  • -  Transcription of text from image: "The cheese can't cut itself but you can. 3700 Cheese-related ER visits in 2017. Nearly 9 out of 10 injuries involved lacerations, cuts or avulsions associated with knives, graters, sliders, or scissors when cutting cheese or opening packages of cheese products."

Digital Id

Cheese House, Trenton, Maine

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017706768/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1984.

Genre

  • Slides--1980-1990.--Color

Notes

  • -  Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
  • -  Margolies category: Main Street.
  • -  Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142).
  • -  Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
  • -  General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
  • -  Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).

Repository

Digital Id

  • mrg 04672 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.04672

Rinchen's wife, storeroom, yak cheese

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011646985/

Reference note

Summary

  • Photograph shows Rinchen Namgyal Lachungpa's wife, in storeroom where yak cheeses hang from ceiling, Lachung, Sikkim.

Created / Published

  • [between 1965 and 1979]

Notes

  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Forms part of: Dr. Alice S. Kandell Collection of Sikkim Photographs (Library of Congress).
  • -  Also represented in LOT 14034-3, pg. no. 077 (color reference copy).
  • -  Gift; Dr. Alice S. Kandell; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:106).

Repository

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 30848 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.30848

Making American cheese. Antigo, Wisconsin

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017813127/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1941 Aug.

Genre

  • Safety film negatives

Notes

  • -  Title and other information from caption card.
  • -  Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
  • -  More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi
  • -  Temp. note: usf34batch7
  • -  Film copy on SIS roll 10, frame 590.

Repository

Digital Id

  • fsa 8c20066 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8c20066

[Automobile with ad for Shefford's Snappy Cheese]

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.30973/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • [between 1910 and 1920]

Genre

  • Glass negatives

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Date from negatives in same range.
  • -  Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
  • -  General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
  • -  This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
  • -  Temp. note: Batch seven.

Repository

Digital Id

  • npcc 30973 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/npcc.30973

The Daily Alaska empire. [volume], February 01, 1943, Page THREE, Image 3

Teaching Notes

Published a few weeks later after the Big Spring Daily Herald.

Reference link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045499/1943-02-01/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1943&index=0&rows=20&words=Cheese+Say+say&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=%22say+cheese%22&y=10&x=15&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Reference note

Newspaper: The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964
Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045499/1943-02-01/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1943&index=0&rows=20...
Image provided by: Alaska State Library Historical Collections
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045499/1943-02-01/ed-1/seq-3.pdf

Detroit evening times., May 12, 1943, 8 STAR, Page PAGE 8, Image 8

Reference link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88063294/1943-05-12/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1943&index=3&rows=20&words=CHEESE+say&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1943&proxtext=%22say+cheese%22&y=10&x=15&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Reference note

Newspaper: Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958
Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88063294/1943-05-12/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1943&index=3&rows=20...
Image provided by: Central Michigan University, Clark Historical Library
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88063294/1943-05-12/ed-1/seq-8.pdf

Joseph E. Davies

Teaching Notes

Joseph E. Davies of "Say Cheese" fame.  

*Note: This photo was taken between 1910 and 1915 (noticeably before Davies received the "Say cheese" advice).

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2014691680/

Reference note

Summary

  • Photo shows Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958) who was appointed by President Wilson to be Commissioner of Corporations in 1912. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Created / Published

  • [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

Genre

  • Glass negatives

Notes

Repository

Digital Id

  • ggbain 12084 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.12084

Mission to Moscow Original Trailer

Mission to Moscow Original Trailer

Homowack breakfast prunes, Mamakating, New York

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2017712929/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1977.

Genre

  • Slides--1970-1980.--Color

Notes

  • -  Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
  • -  Margolies categories: Catskills, Borscht Belt.
  • -  Purchase; John Margolies 2015 (DLC/PP-2015:142).
  • -  Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
  • -  General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
  • -  Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).

Repository

Digital Id

  • mrg 10844 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.10844

Prunes and prune culture in western Europe, with special reference to existing conditions in the Pacific northwest.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/agr09000335/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • Washington, Govt. print. off., 1901.

Notes

  • -  Also available in digital form.

Capital journal., February 16, 1921, Page Page Three, Image 3

Reference link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90066132/1921-02-16/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1777&index=3&rows=20&words=Prune+PRUNE+PRUNES+Prunes&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1963&proxtext=prunes&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1

Reference note

Newspaper: Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980
Newspaper Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90066132/1921-02-16/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1777&index=3&rows=20...
Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
PDF Link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90066132/1921-02-16/ed-1/seq-3.pdf

Dusk shot of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania's famous Geno's Steaks restaurant in the south Philadelphia neighborhood, home to a large Italian-American community. Geno's doesn't make steaks in the usual sense of the word. It, nearby Pat's, and other such emporiums make the city's legendary (those who count calories would say notorious) Philly cheesesteaks, which aren't steaks, either! They are hogie or submarine-style sandwiches, drammed with steak pieces, fried onions, melted cheese, and often, mayonnaise

Teaching Notes

In celebration of NCSS 2022, here is a photo of Geno's Cheesesteaks in Philadelphia.

At the risk of raising ire, it was the consensus of our group (after trying both) that Cheese Whiz was prefered over provolone.

That being said, most important is that you don't forget the cheese. :)

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2019688711/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 2019-03-12.

Genre

  • Digital photographs--Color--2010-2020

Notes

  • -  Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
  • -  Gift/purchase; with support of the Pew Charitable Trusts; 2019; (DLC/PP-2019:012)
  • -  Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Repository

Digital Id