Instructions for the Jack Armstrong Hike-O-Meter Pedometer
date: label: date made
content: late 1930s
name: label: user
content: Bogardus, Betty
notes: label: Description
content: Instructions for the a promotional pedometer for the radio program <i>Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy</i> and General Mills Wheaties cereal. The pedometer would clip onto a belt and record distances walked.
label: Description
content: <i>Jack Armstrong</i> was a 15-minute serial centered around the adventures of a globe-trotting student athlete and his friends and family. Created by General Mills VP of Advertising Samuel Chester Gale, the show was used to promote Wheaties cereal. The syndicated program, airing from 1933-1950, featured actor Jim Ameche and others in the title role.
label: Description
content: Armstrong was the subject of a 1947 film serial as well as novels, comic strips and comic books.
label: Description
content: This was used by the donor in Schenectady, New York. She used the box tops from Wheaties cereal to acquire this pedometer although she did not like the cereal and fed it to the dog.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: New York, Schenectady
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Hiking
label: level of sport
content: recreational
label: web subject
content: Women
label: Subject
content: Radio
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Betty J. Coleman Bogardus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1998.0083.02
label: accession number
content: 1998.0083
label: catalog number
content: 1998.0083.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: instructions
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8.8 cm x 7.8 cm; 3 15/32 in x 3 1/16 in