Hello, Dolly! Window Card: Museum Object and Cultural History
Hello, Dolly! Window Card: Date made: 1978. depicted; performing artist: Channing, Carol. associated institution: Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
The object in the museum catalogue
Window card from the 1978 Broadway revival of Hello, Dolly! starring Carol Channing at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater. The artist for the caricature of Carol Channing featured on the window card is Bob Yealdhall. Hello, Dolly! follows matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi as she tries to find a match for the “well-known unmarried half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date made: 1978
- depicted; performing artist: Channing, Carol
- associated institution: Lunt-Fontanne Theater
- artist: Yealdhall, Bob
- Object Name: poster
- Physical Description: cardboard (overall material)
- Physical Description: ink (overall material)
- Measurements: overall: 14 in x 2 in x 1/16 in; 35.56 cm x 5.08 cm x .15875 cm
- place made: United States: New York, New York City
- general subject association: Musical Theater
- ID Number: 1988.0799.01
- accession number: 1988.0799
- catalog number: 1988.0799.01
- Credit Line: Bob Yealdhall
- Data Source: National Museum of American History
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