IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This toy Howdy Doody puppet was made ...

Dear Harry: I purchased a Howdy Doody toy at my Grandma’s sale in 2003. She was 91 when she died. I have no idea when she acquired the toy. Printed on the round, red, platform base is: “Howdy Doody / ...

“It’s Howdy Doody Time!” Howdy Doody, Buffalo Bob, Clarabelle the Clown burst on the American television screen on the NBC network as “The Howdy Doody Show” in 1947 and captured the hearts of ...

WHAT: An original production Howdy Doody marionette associated with the 1950s TV show featuring the red-haired figure sold for $15,860 recently in an antique toy auction at Pook & Pook. While it is an ...

As a child, Lorraine Whittlesey was a member of TV’s Peanut Gallery, helping make a star of an excitable, squeaky-voiced marionette named Howdy Doody. Next weekend, she’ll be sitting in the audience ...

A common daydream of children is to discover an attic full of wonderful toys to play with. If you were one of those kids during the post-war period of the ’50s and ’60s, you can realize that dream, ...

Q: I have owned my Howdy Doody marionette since I was a child. It is completely original, including strings and clothing. I have searched the Internet and cannot find a similar one with an integral, ...

Howdy Doody has the world on a string. Amazingly, he is as young as ever – the same freckle-faced, friendly, frisky little fellow he was on television 47 years ago. And he has a room of his own. Jim ...