Object Details
- performer
- Henson, Jim
- Henson, Jim
- Description (Brief)
- Pierre the Rat is one of Jim Henson’s oldest creations. Henson first designed the character in a comic strip for his high school in 1954, and he created this hand puppet with a plastic wood head later that year for The Junior Morning Show, a local Washington, D.C., children’s television show. Pierre the Rat was later used on Sam and Friends, which was a five-minute show that aired on the local NBC affiliate station in Washington, D.C., WRC-TV. It featured a cast of hand puppets created by Jim Henson and his eventual wife Jane Nebel that often lip-synched to popular songs or comedy records. It aired from 1955 to 1961.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift from the Family of Jim Henson
- 1954
- ID Number
- 2010.0144.07
- accession number
- 2010.0144
- catalog number
- 2010.0144.07
- Object Name
- puppet
- Physical Description
- fabric (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- paint (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 21 in x 9 in x 9 in; 53.34 cm x 22.86 cm x 22.86 cm
- See more items in
- Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
- Jim Henson
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Puppetry
- Television
- Television broadcasts
- Record ID
- nmah_1397162
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-3873-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
