Rubber Duckie used by Ernie on Sesame Street
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1969
label: date made
content: 1970s
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Ernie, one of the main characters of the children’s television program Sesame Street, enjoys taking bubble baths with this rubber duck toy. He often sings the song “Rubber Duckie” about his beloved rubber duckie. The song was released as a single and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 on September 26, 1970.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Sesame Street (1969-present) is the longest-running children’s television series in American history, and one of the most influential and impactful programs in the history of the medium. First developed by producer Joan Ganz Cooney to use all the entertaining tools of commercial television to teach preschool aged children, the series was also a notable effort to use public television to reach minority and low-income communities who otherwise lacked educational opportunities. The series combines live action sequences set in a Harlem-like neighborhood of urban brownstones and small businesses with animated segments, catchy modern music, popular culture parodies, and integrates Jim Henson’s Muppets, a memorable mélange of entertaining scenes that have made Sesame Street a favorite of children and parents alike. Sesame Street is a production of Sesame Workshop (known before 2000 as the Children’s Television Workshop) and premiered on the National Educational Television (NET) network in 1969 before that early educational broadcaster transitioned to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1970. Since 2016, Sesame Street has aired new episodes on HBO although reruns still air on PBS.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related object association proper name
content: Sesame Street
label: general subject association
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Jim Henson
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Children's Television Workshop (through Robert A. Hatch)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0952.02
label: accession number
content: 1979.0952
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0952.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Duck, Toy
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 4 in; 10.16 cm x 10.16 cm