The Cat's Meow-Off

Name/Title

The Cat's Meow-Off

Entry/Object ID

2015.1.6021

Description

The Cat's Meow-Off: Benjamin Franklin Pierce beat over 600,000 other cats in the 1979 Meow-Off Contest, to be named the cat with the best meow in America. Benjamin Franklin Pierce's meow won his owner, 14 year old Sandra Lynn Midgett of Jacksonville, Fla., a $125,00 grand prize and a trip to Hollywood, where the talented cat will make a Meow-Mix commercial and possibly become television's hottest new feline star

Collection

Jack H. King Donation

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Photograph, Black-and-White

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Photograph

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Graphic Documents

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects