One of a Pair of Knee Pads used by Vicki Armour as a Member of the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club
name: label: user
content: Armour, Vicki Loren
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: One of a pair of tan leather knee pads with dark brown leather circle reinforcements. There are three dark brown leather straps with silver buckles on the ends. Vicki Armour used these knee pads while a member of the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club in West Palm Beach, Florida during the early 1980s. Vicki Armour began playing polo at age thirteen and later developed an active business, training and selling polo ponies. She played in many tournaments in the United States and throughout Europe in the 1970s and early 1980s and was considered one of the best women polo players in the country.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used
content: United States: Florida, West Palm Beach
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Polo
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: web subject
content: Women
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Vicki Loren Armour
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0567.09.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0567
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0567.09.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: knee pad, polo
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: leather (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 13 in x 10 1/2 in; 33.02 cm x 26.67 cm