Sesame Street Sign
Sesame Street Sign
- Description
- This green and yellow wooden street sign decorated the set of “Sesame Street in 1979. The top of the sign reads “CTW” for Children's Television Workshop, with “Sesame Street” painted below. “Sesame Street" first aired on PBS November 10, 1969, and combined commercial television techniques with substantive educational content. Produced by Children’s Television Workshop, this innovative program helped prepare young children for the transition from home to preschool through public television.
- date made
- 1979
- producer
- Children's Television Workshop
- maker
- Children's Television Workshop
- place made
- United States: New York, New York
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 3/4 in x 20 in; 22.225 cm x 50.8 cm
- ID Number
- 1979.0952.01
- accession number
- 1979.0952
- catalog number
- 1979.0952.01
- Credit Line
- Gift of Children's Television Workshop (through Robert A. Hatch)
- subject
- Sesame Street
- Children
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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