Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation Award, presented to Ella Fitzgerald
date: label: presentation date
content: 1990
name: label: recipient
content: Fitzgerald, Ella
label: presenter
content: Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation
label: manufacturer
content: Western Badge & Button Co.
notes: label: Description
content: <p>This award was presented to Ella Fitzgerald by the Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation, in 1990. It is a black-stained wood plaque, with a silver-tone metal plate with musical staff, clef, and notes. The metal plate is engraved:</p>
label: Description
content: <p>SUGAR RAY ROBINSON YOUTH FOUNDATION<br>PRESTIGIOUS AWARD<br>1990<br>MISS ELLA FITZGERALD</p>
label: Description
content: <p>The Sugar Ray Robinson Youth Foundation, founded in 1969, is a non-profit organization that supports inner-city children between the ages of 6 to 13, in the Los Angeles area. The foundation serves as a juvenile delinquency prevention program offering sports, arts, crafts, and field trips after school and on Saturdays. This is one of several organizations supported by American jazz singer, Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996).</p>
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Awards and Prizes
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Music & Musical Instruments
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content: Popular Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Fitzgerald 1989 Trust (through Richard D. Rosman)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1996.0342.045
label: accession number
content: 1996.0342
label: catalog number
content: 1996.0342.045
objectType: label: Object Name
content: award
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 9 in x 5/8 in; 30.48 cm x 22.86 cm x 1.5875 cm