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Fred Rogers, age 2, with his mother, Nancy McFeely Rogers (c. 1929 or 1930)
Fred Rogers as a baby, c. 1928
Fred Rogers as a boy, around age 4
Fred Rogers with his grandfather Fred Brooks McFeely, 1935
Fred Rogers, age 5, playing his first piano, 1933
Fred Rogers, age 11, holding his adopted sister, Elaine, 1939
Fred Rogers with his grandmother Nancy McFeely, 1947
Joanne Byrd Rogers, 1950
Left to right: Fred’s mother, Nancy Rogers; his grandmother Nancy McFeely; Fred Rogers; Fred’s sister, Elaine Rogers; and his father, James Rogers, c. 1948
Filming on the set of The Children’s Corner at WQED, 1955
Josie Carey and Fred Rogers
filming an Attic segment of The Children’s Corner, 1954
Fred Rogers with his sons, John (left) and James (right), on the set of CBC’s Misterogers, c. 1963
A WGBH Open House that drew more than five thousand people, 1967
Margaret Hamilton (left), aka the Wicked Witch of the West, as Princess Margaret H. Lizard, 1975
Maggie Stewart as Mayor Maggie of Westwood, which adjoins the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, 1975
Fred Rogers at the Senate hearings supporting public television, 1969
Neighborhood cast photograph. Clockwise from left: Chuck Aber, Joe Negri, David Newell, Don Brockett, Bob Trow, Betty Aberlin, Maggie Stewart, Fred Rogers, and Audrey Roth, 1990s
Fred Rogers with child development specialist Dr. Margaret McFarland, 1970s
Cameraman Bob Vaughn films Fred Rogers at the WQED studios in Pittsburgh
Fred Rogers with producer Margy Whitmer, 1992
Fred Rogers seesawing with Marilyn Barnett, a physical education teacher and later a school principal, who came on the show to teach Mister Rogers exercises, 1992
Fred Rogers with puppeteers Carole Switala and Lenny Meledandri, 1992
Fred Rogers greeting a child, 1970s
Fred Rogers and children, 1979
Fred Rogers with guest Jeff Erlanger, 1981
Fred Rogers with oceanographer Sylvia Earle, 1990
Fred Rogers with the musical Marsalis family, 1990
Fred Rogers on his daily swim at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association
Fred Rogers with François Clemmons in a famous scene from the Neighborhood, 1993
Fred Rogers with Joanne Rogers on Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, 1990s
Fred Rogers at the Crooked House in Nantucket, 1990s
Outline for the script of Food Week on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 1984
Final page of the outline of the script for Food Week on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 1984. Included is Fred Rogers adapting the song “Many Ways” to fit the theme.
Fred Rogers crossing the bridge at Idlewild Park, an amusement park in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, near Latrobe, 1990s. Scenes from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood were sometimes filmed there.
Miniature set of the Neighborhood