Original score for song "Won't You Be My Neighbor"
date: label: date made
content: 1967
name: label: maker
content: Rogers, Fred M.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Handwritten original musical score for the song "Won't You Be My Neighbor" arranged by Johnny Costa with lyrics by Fred Rogers. The song was the theme music for the children's television program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
label: Description (Brief)
content: Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and aired on public television across the nation from 1968 to 2001. Host Fred Rogers began each episode by changing into a sweater and tennis shoes and singing, "Won't you be my neighbor?" An ordained Presbyterian minister and student of children's development and education, Rogers dedicated his television career to promoting children's emotional and moral well-being. His show, with its friendly conversational style and trips to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, encouraged young viewers to feel loved, respected, and special.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: Children's television programs
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2019.0101.06
label: catalog number
content: 2019.0101.06
label: accession number
content: 2019.0101
objectType: label: Object Name
content: score
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 3/4 in x 8 3/4 in; 29.845 cm x 22.225 cm