Olympic Committee Metal from the 1920 Antwerp Olympics
date: label: Date made
content: 1920
name: label: user
content: Levine, Ben
label: maker
content: Dieges & Clust
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Bronze medal attached to an red, white, and blue ribbon. Long metal bar with "COMMITTEE" written on it is attached to the top of the ribbon. This is also the pin. Metal has bust of athlete and the words, "On Behalf of the City of New York to the Victorious American Athletes on Their Return from the Olympic Games at Antwerp, Belgium 1920.
label: Description (Brief)
content: This John F. Hylan medal was to honor the Olympic athletes returning from the 1920 Antwerp Olympics. This belonged to the donor's father Benjamin Levine. Levine was a participant in the development of amateur sports competition from 1902 as a boy of 13 when he went to work for James Sullivan, President of the Amateur Athletic Union until his retirement from the A.A.U. in 1968. Levine's primary contribution was to Amateur boxing, which he first promoted prior to 1920. He staged the first Golden Gloves and was the Assistant Manager of the U.S. Boxing teams at the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games and an international jurist in boxing at the Olympics in 1932.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Boxing
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: level of sport
content: Olympics
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bertram Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0049.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0049.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: medal, olympic
label: Object Name
content: medal, summer olympics
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bronze (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: fabric (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1 3/4 in x 3 3/4 in; 4.445 cm x 9.525 cm