Mrs. Cinderella for General Electric Pamphelet
date: label: date made
content: 1939
name: label: depicted
content: CInderella
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This brightly colored pamphlet titled "Mrs. Cinderella" is a program that accompanied a puppet show performed at the General Electric display building at the 1939 World's Fair In New York. (See 1979.1164.05)
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Tatterman Marionette Company, led by led by William Duncan and Ed Mable, entertained at the 1939 World's Fair and toured the country and performed this show hundreds of time to promote the wonders of electricity.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The book follows Cinderella and Prince Charming after they are happily married but living in a drafty, old castle inhabited by little elves who interfere with her daily chores and make her life miserable. Her fairy godmother appears and insists Cinderella call G-E 1939.
label: Description (Brief)
content: In a flash the castle is overrun with good little elves who get rid of the evil gnomes and install all new updated GE appliances that will make her life easier, including a new stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, mixer toaster, washing machine, hot water heater and a vacuum. The moral of the story being that GE products can make your life easier and give the housewife "added hours of freedom" to make a happy home. This is a wonderful example of early advertising using puppets as the media.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Puppets
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content: Advertising
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.3001.039
label: nonaccession number
content: 2013.3001
label: catalog number
content: 2013.3001.039
objectType: label: Object Name
content: advertisement
label: Object Name
content: pamphlet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 8 3/4 in; 15.24 cm x 22.225 cm