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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is home to the original Sam and Friends characters, a gift from the Henson Family. The original Kermit, Sam and Harry are now on display in the Museum’s new Entertainment Nation gallery.
Want to buy the book? This is the place to go. Publisher Ben Ohmart and his team have a vast catalog of titles, specializing in television, film, radio and all sorts of fun entertainment books.
The Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, NY has a permanent Jim Henson Exhibition, including an area dedicated to Sam and Friends and a Yorick puppet on display.
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Photo courtesy of The Jim Henson Company
The Jim Henson Legacy is a non-profit organization founded by Jane Henson, whose mission is to celebrate and preserve the work of Jim Henson.
Atlanta’s Center for Puppetry Arts has a permanent Jim Henson gallery, including Omar from Sam and Friends.
The company that Jim and Jane Henson began during Sam and Friends is now known as The Jim Henson Company and is owned and run by their children. The company was incredibly supportive of this project and provided the archival materials used in the book and on this website.
The Muppet Wiki is a vast fan-generated database of Henson information and was a terrific resource in researching this book.
The Baltimore Museum of Industry houses the Esskay Meat Company archives and made them accessible to the author for research.
The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America project makes fun scans of many historic newspapers available on the web. For the Sam and Friends book, its collection of The Washington Evening Star was instrumental in cross-referencing the television schedules to establish the airing schedule of the show.