Man holding giant Auricchio provolone cheese in a grocery – Vintage Print
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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Man holding giant Auricchio provolone cheese in a grocery. It comes from the Snapshots of the Past collection, curated over 25 years for its historical value.
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Man holding giant Auricchio provolone cheese in a grocery
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A man poses with an enormous wheel of Auricchio provolone, the Italian cheese maker's name stamped in view, in what appears to be a grocery setting. Oversized promotional cheeses like this were a common sight in mid-twentieth-century food shops, where a giant wheel in the window or on the counter drew customers and advertised the brand's scale. Provolone, a pulled-curd cheese long made in southern Italy and later produced at scale in the United States, was often sold this way in large format. The picture is a good example of how grocers used spectacle to sell everyday staples.
| Original scan | 4,093 × 3,369 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif12761_AnthonyNocellaliftinga110pound |
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