Sketch: "Ten Years of Sesame Street"
date: label: Date made
content: 1979
name: label: user
content: Children's Television Workshop
label: maker
content: Compton, Alan J.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: <p>This sketch of the set of <i>Sesame Street</i> was made for the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) exhibit, "Ten Years of Sesame Street" in 1979. It was painted by Alan Compton, who was a <i>Sesame Street</i> set designer, over a duplicated drawing also by him. It is signed and dated by the artist in the lower right corner.</p>
label: Description (Brief)
content: <p><i>Sesame Street</i> is an educational children’s television program that mixes puppets, animation, and live actors. It premiered on November 10, 1969 and continues to air today. The show is aimed at preschoolers and teaches the audience reading, arithmetic, and other academic lessons in addition to basic life skills.</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related object association proper name
content: Sesame Street
label: general subject association
content: Television
label: general subject association
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
label: See more items in
content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Alan J. Compton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0616.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0616
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0616.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 5/8 in x 25 1/4 in; 16.8275 cm x 64.135 cm