50th Anniversary Plaque of the Amateur Athletic Union
date: label: date made
content: 1938
name: label: user
content: Levine, Ben
label: maker
content: Dieges & Clust
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Black wood plaque with a gold plate screwed onto the front: Golden Anniversary of the Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, 1888-1938, commorating the 50th anniversary. Listed down the sides of the plaque are all of the people who served as presidents of the AAU and their dates of service. 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: New York, New York City
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Boxing
label: level of sport
content: Amateur
setName: label: See more items in
content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bertram Levine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0049.16
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0049.16
label: accession number
content: 1991.0049
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plaque
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 1/4 in x 7 1/4 in; 13.335 cm x 18.415 cm