Captain Kangaroo promotional postcard 1961

Bunny Rabbit was a

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character on the

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''. Bunny Rabbit wore

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, and would trick the Captain into giving him his carrots. Bunny Rabbit was a hand puppet created and manipulated by Cosmo Allegretti. The hand puppet is now in the collection of the National Museum of American History, part of the Smithsonian Institution museums.

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