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Museum purchase, 2017.35.1.1, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Not Determined
Bobby Rydell and possibly Bobby Vee on "Teensville"
Museum purchase, 2017.35.1.1, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Not Determined

Bobby Rydell and possibly Bobby Vee on "Teensville"

PhotographerPhotographed by Thomas Llewellen Vater American, 1935 - 2006
SubjectPortrait of Bobby Rydell American, 1942 - 2022
SubjectPortrait of Bobby Vee 1943 - 2016
SubjectPortrait of Thomas Llewellen Vater American, 1935 - 2006
Date1959-1961
Mediumblack-and-white negatives; gelatin silver emulsion on acetate
ClassificationsGraphics
Credit LineMuseum purchase
DescriptionNine 35mm negatives depicting guests on television show "Teensville." Includes images of singer Bobby Rydell with the Greater Hartford Bobby Rydell Fan Club poster, Rydell and host Tom Vater in front of the Teensville sign, and the crowd's reaction to Rydell. Also includes another young man dancing as teenage girls applaud. This young man is presumed to be a guest on the show, possibly singer Bobby Vee.
Object number2017.35.1.1-.9
Notes"Teensville," a television program on Hartford’s Channel 18, aired from 1959 to 1961. Tom Vater (1935-2006), a West Hartford native, hosted the television program.
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Museum purchase,  2017.35.462, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, In copyright
Thomas Llewellen Vater
1959-1961
Museum purchase,  2017.35.463, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History, In copyright
Thomas Llewellen Vater
Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.552, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
about 1916
Gift of Mrs. Byard Williams, 1988.133.555, Connecticut Historical Society, Copyright Undetermin…
Horace Bushnell Cheney Sr.
about 1914
Gift of Edmund S. Valtman, 1995.71.453  © 2014 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Edmund S. Valtman
probably 1970-1971
Gift of the YMCA of Greater Hartford, 2006.109.24  © 2011 The Connecticut Historical Society.
C. Crawford Brewer
1963-1972
Gift of Robert Grant Irving, 1994.207.13  © 2008 The Connecticut Historical Society.
Maude Jeannette Purvis
1950s