Howdy Doody, A Puppet, In Pilgrim Costume, For Appearance In Thanksgiving Day Parades – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Howdy Doody, A Puppet, In Pilgrim Costume, For Appearance In Thanksgiving Day Parades, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Howdy Doody, A Puppet, In Pilgrim Costume, For Appearance In Thanksgiving Day Parades
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Howdy Doody, the freckle-faced marionette-like star of the NBC children's show, is dressed here as a Pilgrim for the Thanksgiving Day parades that were a fixture of American holidays by the early 1950s. The show had become one of television's first big hits, so a puppet posed in costume made for an easy draw for crowds and photographers. The picture comes from the New York World-Telegram & Sun collection, a newspaper archive whose photographers documented city life, and it captures a moment when the merging of television celebrity and an old national holiday tradition was new.
| Created / published | c. 1951 |
|---|---|
| Medium | photographic print |
| Notes | New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Library of Congress |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 2,682 × 3,708 px · prints to 9 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-188465 |
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