Crackle Hand Puppet
date: label: Date made
content: 1950 - 1959
name: label: user
content: Rollins, Hazelle H.
label: user
content: Rollins, Hazelle H.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: This hand puppet, Crackle, is one of the three characters used to represent the famous Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal. His head is made of molded synthetic rubber, his hands are red felt, and he is dressed in a peachy pink colored cotton shirt. Snap, Crackle, and Pop were created in the 1930s as spokesmen for Kellogg's Rice Krispies. Their images are based on drawings by illustrator Vernon Grant and cartoonist Don Margolis. These three little sprites were popular images used to advertise cereal to children.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This particular set of puppets is from the early 1960s were offered as premiums for saving cereal box tops. These familiar elves continue to represent the Rick Krispies brand in the twenty first century.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Missouri, Kansas City
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New York, New York
topic: label: general subject association
content: Puppetry
label: Subject
content: Radio and television broadcasting
label: Subject
content: Television broadcasts
label: Subject
content: Consumerism
label: Subject
content: Toys
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Puppets
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content: Advertising
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Anne W. and John W. Rollins, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0910.07
label: accession number
content: 1980.0910
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0910.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: puppet
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: felt (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 21.59 cm x 29.21 cm