Sesame Street Sign
date: label: date made
content: 1969
name: label: producer
content: Children's Television Workshop
label: maker
content: Children's Television Workshop
notes: label: Description
content: This green and yellow wooden street sign decorated the set of Sesame Street until 1979. The top of the sign reads “CTW” for Children's Television Workshop, with “Sesame Street” painted below.
label: Description
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.
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: related object association proper name
content: Sesame Street
label: Subject
content: Children
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: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Children's Television Workshop
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0952.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0952
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0952.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sign
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 20 in; 22.225 cm x 50.8 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 20 in x 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 50.8 cm x 1.27 cm