Photograph of Ben Levine and the US Olympic Team, 1924
date: label: date made
content: 1924
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Levine, Ben
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black and white photograph of Ben Levine and the 1924 U.S. Olympic team upon arrival in Paris, France. 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: depicted
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: level of sport
content: Olympics
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
label: related event
content: Olympic Summer Games: Paris, 1924
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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: 1991.0049.38
label: accession number
content: 1991.0049
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0049.38
objectType: label: Object Name
content: photograph, summer olympics
label: Object Name
content: photograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 3/4 in x 15 in; 14.605 cm x 38.1 cm