Passport Issued to Benjamin Levine
date: label: date made
content: 1928
name: label: user
content: Levine, Ben
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Passport issued to renowned American amateur boxing coach and manager Benjamin Levine. The passport is covered in cardboard, with the papers inside, folded to fit inside the cover; almost as if this was an early version of United States passports. It expired in 1925. This belonged to the donor's father, Ben 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
topic: label: name of sport
content: Boxing
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: Subject
content: Travel
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Sports & Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bertram Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0049.20.2
label: accession number
content: 1991.0049
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0049.20.2
objectType: label: Object Name
content: passport
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)