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Summary Information
Access Restrictions
Historical Note
Scope and Content Note
Indexing Terms
Administrative Information
Content List
Folder List

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Howdy Doody mss

Records, 1946-1986, of the television program Howdy Doody, at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

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Summary Information

Repository:
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Indiana University

1200 E. Seventh St.

Bloomington, IN 47405-5500

Phone: 812-855-2452

Fax: 812-855-3143

Email: liblilly@indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly 

Creator:
Howdy Doody Show (Television program)

Extent:
100 items

Title:
Howdy Doody mss. 1946-1986   

Collection No.:
LMC 1596

Extent:
100 items

Language:
Materials are in English

Abstract:
Consists of correspondence, memoranda, contracts, and other documents relating to the television program the Howdy Doody Show. The materials are from the files of Martin Stone, owner and producer of the program.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Historical Note

The Howdy Doody Show aired from 1947-1960. It was the first television network show to run five consecutive days a week, the first to broadcast in color, and it won the George Foster Peabody Award "for outstanding children's program during 1948." This was the first Peabody Award, originally for radio programming, that went to a television feature.

Scope and Content Note

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, contracts, and other documents relating to the television program The Howdy Doody Show. The materials are from the files of Martin Stone, owner and producer of the show. The correspondence and contracts date 1946-1954 and are primarily with Robert E. Smith who was "Buffalo Bob" on the program. The 1969-1986 correspondence involves some effort to revive the show as well as discussions about licensing and ownership of the program and the music composed for it. Correspondents in these later files include Edward G. Kean, the composer of the program music. The original manuscript of Kean's "You don't cross the street with your feet" and a folder of clippings complete the collection.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in IUCAT , the IU Libraries' online catalog. Materials about related topics, persons or places can be found by searching the catalog using these terms.

Names

  • Smith, Buffalo Bob, 1917- .
  • Stone, Martin, 1915- .
  • Kean, Edward George, 1924.

Topics

  • Television programs for children.

Titles

  • Howdy Doody Show (Television program)

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information:
Purchase. 2000

Usage Restrictions:
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with the permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library

Preferred Citation:
[identification of item], Howdy Doody mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana

 
Folder List  

  Folder 1-5
Correspondence 1946-1954 
  Folder 6
Miscellaneous notes, memos, expenses, etc.1950s? 
  Folder 7-8
Correspondence1969-1986 
  Folder 9
"You Don't Cross the Street with Your Feet" [music manuscript]
  Folder 10
Printed--clippings