IX Winter Olympics pin from the 1964 Innsbruck Games
date: label: Date made
content: 1964
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: IX Winter Olympics pin from the 1964 Innsbruck Games. Olympic pin collecting began as early as 1900 and gained momentum at the 1936 Games. Through the 1960s pin trading was on the upswing but really took off at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games with sponsor's becoming more prevalent. Coca-Cola set up a pin trading area at the Calgary Games which gave a boost to the hobby which is still a big part of the Olympic experience.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1964 Winter Olympic Games, also known as the Games of the IX Olympiad were held in Innsbruck, Austria and included 36 countries, 892 men and 199 women athletes participating. This particular year Innsbruck suffered from a lack of snow forcing the Austrian army to transport ice blocks for the bobsled and luge runs and snow for the Alpine events from surrounding mountains. There were political issues surrounding these Games as South Africa was not allowed to compete due to its Apartheid policy and despite the creation of the Berlin Wall in 1961, East and West Germany still competed as the United Team of Germany. The once dominate US figure skating team had been killed in a plane crash three years before so the US team was still rebuilding although computers were used in scoring the figure skating events for the first-time providing scores almost instantly. The Soviet Union won the medal count with 25 with the United States earning 7 medals.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Austria
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: Subject
content: Winter Olympics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Vicki L. Thorn
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1986.0773.058
label: accession number
content: 1986.0773
label: catalog number
content: 1986.0773.058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pin, olympic
label: Object Name
content: pin, winter olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: white (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: enamel (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 in x 1 in; 2.54 cm x 2.54 cm