Admission ticket for an athletic event at the 1960 Summer Olympics
date: label: Date
content: 1960
name: label: Illustrated by
content: Corrado Mancioli, Italian, 1904 - 1958
label: Printed by
content: Salomone, Italian
label: Distributed by
content: Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Italian, 1958 - 1960
label: Owned by
content: Dick Howard, American, 1935 - 1967
notes: label: Description
content: A ticket for admission to an athletic event at the Stadio Olimpico during the 1960 Rome Olympics. The ticket is pink with a red graphic of the portico of the Temple of Saturn. The portico is depicted as ruins with a piece of a fallen column in the foreground on the bottom center. Behind the portico, additional monuments and architecture can be seen. Below center to the right of the portico is a white graphic of the Olympic Stadium. At the top in the center is a block of red text and the logo of the 1960 Rome Olympics. The logo features the Olympic rings capped with a statue of the Capitoline Wolf and the date in Roman numerals. On the right side of the ticket is a stylized clock with the time at 3 o'clock and a white graphic of a track runner. Information about the event is printed in Italian above and below the image of the clock and runner. The reverse of the ticket features a black and white image of the Olympic Stadium. To the left of the image is a column of text with instructions. In the lower left quadrant is a vertical stamp of the ticket number.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Rome, Roma, Italy, Europe
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Athletes
label: Topic
content: Olympics
label: Topic
content: Sports
label: Topic
content: Track and field
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Howard Family
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.140.4
objectType: label: Type
content: admission tickets
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © International Olympic Committee
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 3 13/16 x 6 1/16 in. (9.7 x 15.4 cm)