Globe used in production of television soap opera As The World Turns: Museum Object and Cultural History
Globe used in production of television soap opera As The World Turns: Associated Name: CBS Television Network. Associated Name: Procter & Gamble Company. maker: Replogle Globes.
The object in the museum catalogue
Globe used as a prop in the "Wade Book Store" on the television show, As the World Turns /i>.
The soap opera As the World Turns aired on CBS television from 1956-2010. Set in the same universe as CBS’ other long running soap opera, Guiding Light (1952-2009) , the program was a melodrama focusing on the lives of the professional classes in the fictional town of “Oakdale, Illinois”. The show was the most-viewed daytime drama between 1958-1978.
Actress Helen Wagner played family matriarch and supportive confidant Nancy Hughes on As the World Turns from 1956-2010.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Associated Name: CBS Television Network
- Associated Name: Procter & Gamble Company
- maker: Replogle Globes
- Object Name: globe
- Object Name: prop
- Physical Description: tin (overall material)
- Physical Description: paint (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 14 1/2 in x 30 in; 36.83 cm x 76.2 cm
- general subject association: Television
- web subject: Entertainment
- ID Number: 1984.0198.04
- accession number: 1984.0198
- catalog number: 1984.0198.04
- Credit Line: Proctor and Gamble Productions, Inc., through Fred Bartholomew
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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