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Creator: | Rogers, Fred. |
Title: | Fred Rogers Photograph |
Inclusive Dates: | between 1963-1999 |
Quantity: | 1 folder (SC) |
Abstract: | Photograph of television personality Mister Rogers and a monkey, inscribed and signed by Rogers to first-grade students at VanBuren Elementary School. |
Language: | English |
Repository: |
Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Avenue Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center |
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (often shortened to simply Mister Rogers) is an American children's television series. Created and hosted by American educator, songwriter and Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers, the show ran for nearly forty years (1963-2001).
VanBuren Elementary School is in Baldwinsville, New York. The teacher to whose class the photograph is inscribed, Nan Milden, taught at VanBuren from 1954-1999.
The Fred Rogers Photograph consists of a photograph of television personality Mister Rogers, with a small monkey seated on his shoulder. The photograph is inscribed and signed by Mr. Rogers to a first-grade class at VanBuren Elementary School in Baldwinsville, New York.
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Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Fred Rogers Photograph,
Special Collections Research Center,
Syracuse University Libraries
Purchase, 2013.
Created by: MRC
Date: 27 Mar 2013
Revision history:
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SC 689 | Fred Rogers, with monkey undated - signed and inscribed to Mrs. Milden's first-grade class, thanking them for their letters; the closing signature reads, "Best wishes and happy day from Mister Rogers and the Neighborhood and WCNY-TV." |