Object Details
- referenced
- Horwich, Frances
- publisher
- Whitman Publishing, LLC
- Description
This coloring book, Ding Dong School Let's Draw and Color, was published by Whitman Publishing Co. in Racine, Wisconsin, 1955. It has a green cover with full-color illustrations of children playing, and an easel in the center with a black and a black and white image of "Miss Frances."
Ding Dong School was one of the earliest educational shows for very young children. The television series was first broadcast out of Chicago on WNBQ in 1952 and was syndicated in 1959. The host Dr. Frances Horwich, was known on the show as "Miss Frances."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Western Publishing Company, Inc. (through Richard Bernstein)
- 1955
- ID Number
- 1992.0634.047
- accession number
- 1992.0634
- catalog number
- 1992.0634.047
- Object Name
- coloring book
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 1/2 in x 8 1/2 in x 1/4 in; 29.21 cm x 21.59 cm x .635 cm
- place made
- United States: Wisconsin, Racine
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Popular Entertainment
- Little Golden Books
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Entertainment, general
- Children's television programs
- general subject association
- Television
- Record ID
- nmah_1250789
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-047e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
