Pair of shoes worn by Fred Rogers on The Children's Corner
date: label: date made
content: 1950s
name: label: wearer
content: Rogers, Fred M.
label: maker
content: Sperry
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Pair of shoes worn by Fred Rogers while he worked on the children's television program The Children's Corner from 1955-1961. The white lowtop Sperry Top-Sider sneakers have rubber soles and canvas upper, with flat cloth laces. The shoes are signed in blue ink, with "Greetings from your 'neighbor' Mister Rogers" written on the right shoe and "Best regards from the Neighborhood / Fred Rogers 1996" written on the left shoe.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The Children's Corner was a weekday afternoon program produced by WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and featured host Josie Carey in classroom/playhouse environment interacting with puppets and guests. Fred Rogers was co-creator of the program and served as writer, musician, and performer alongside Carey. Rogers created the puppet characters Daniel Striped Tiger, King Friday XIII, X the Owl, Lady Elaine Fairchilde, and Henrietta Pussycat for this show and would later reuse them on Mister Rogers (1961) and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968-2001).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
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: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0101.01
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0101.01
label: accession number
content: 2019.0101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shoes
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: canvas (upper material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (sole material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (lace grommets material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 in x 12 in; 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm x 30.48 cm