Little Annie Rooney
date: label: date made
content: 1930s
name: label: maker
content: Offset Gravure Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: New York Evening Journal promotional pin back button featuring the comic characters Annie Rooney and Zero.
label: Description
content: <i>Little Annie Rooney</i> was a syndicated newspaper comic strip that ran from 1927-1966. Named after the popular music hall song “Little Annie Rooney” the strip was greatly inspired by the success of the <i>Little Orphan Annie </i> introduced in 1924. Like her predecessor, Annie Rooney was a spunky girl accompanied by a dog, in this case “Zero.”
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Annie
label: Subject
content: Comics
label: web subject
content: Entertainment
label: Subject
content: Newspaper
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Col. Donald A. Seibert
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0210.05
label: accession number
content: 1986.0210
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0210.05
label: maker number
content: 504509
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 1/8 in; 2.8575 cm