T-Shirt Commemorating Jim Thorpe
date: label: date made
content: 1984
name: label: depicted (sitter)
content: Thorpe, Jim
label: maker
content: Screen Stars Best
notes: label: Description
content: Yellow short-sleeved t-shirt commemorating the release of United States Postal Stamp of multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe. The shirt features a dark blue transfer print of Thorpe inside a stamp-like outline, and read <i>Second Day Issue / Yale, Oklahoma / May 25, 1984 <i>. Copyrighted 1983 by the U. S. Postal Service.
label: Description
content: Thorpe, of mixed European and Native American descent, is considered one of the greatest-overall athletes in United States history. He was a star for the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, where he attained All-American honors in football. He went on to represent the United States at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, winning gold medals in the decathlon and pentathlon. Thorpe went on to play professional football, baseball and basketball.
label: Description
content: Thorpe's Olympic victories were revoked when it was discovered that he had made money playing semi-pro baseball, forfeiting his status as an amateur. The medals were reinstated to his family in 1983.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: referenced
content: United States: Oklahoma, Yale
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: web subject
content: Tourist trade
label: Subject
content: Olympics
label: Subject
content: Football
label: Subject
content: Baseball
label: Subject
content: Native Americans
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: James A. Potts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0864.01
label: accession number
content: 1984.0864
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0864.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: t-shirt
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: polyester (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 27 in x 17 in; 68.58 cm x 43.18 cm