Tote Bag given to Brenda Gilmore as a Participant at the 1984 U.S. National Wheelchair Tennis Championships
name: label: user
content: Gilmore, Brenda J.
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: White canvas tote bag with a red handle. Printed on front of bag in red and blue "USA / 1984 Olympics / Allergan" as well as printed design of a torch on lower left front. This was given to the donor, Brenda Gilmore as a participant at the 1984 U.S. National Wheelchair Tennis Championships.
label: Description (Brief)
content: The 1984 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles, California with 140 countries participating. These Games were boycotted by fourteen countries, including the Soviet Union because of America’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American Carl Lewis won four gold medals in track and field while Joan Benoit won gold for the U.S. in the first women’s marathon. Mary Lou Retton dominated women’s gymnastics becoming the first American to win the gymnastics all-around competition and the American men won the gold in the gymnastics team competition. With the addition of women’s only events of rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and the addition of women’s events in track and field, shooting and cycling, women athletes were just beginning to see results from Title IX legislation of twelve years prior. The United States won the medal count with 174.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Wheelchair Tennis
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: web subject
content: Women
label: web subject
content: Disabilities
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Brenda J. Gilmore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.1013.07
label: accession number
content: 1984.1013
label: catalog number
content: 1984.1013.07
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bag, tote
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: muslin (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: canvas (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 13 in; 39.37 cm x 33.02 cm