1964 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Women's Track and Field: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A program for the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Track and Field. The front cover of the program is yellow and white with red, blue, white, and black ink. The text on the cover reads: [1964 U.S. Olympic Team Trials / Women's Track & Field / Downing Stadium Randalls Island, N.Y. / August 6-8, 1964 / Fifty Cents]. There is a red sun in the top right cover with the text [Tokyo] written underneath. There is a shield of red, white and blue with the Olympic rings in the lower portion of the cover. In the bottom left corner there is an image of track runners. The text to the right of the image reads: [Wilma Rudolph enroute to 400-meter relay victory in 1960 Olympic Games]. The interior contains forty-eight pages of images and text about the U.S. Olympic committee, the athletes, and the trials. The back of the program features an advertisement for Dodge Chrysler.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1964
• Created by: United States Olympic Committee, American, founded 1894
• Owned by: Marilyn Elaine White, American, born 1944
• Subject of: Wilma Rudolph, American, 1940 - 1994
• Type: souvenir programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W (Closed): 11 × 8 9/16 in. (27.9 × 21.7 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Open): 11 × 17 in. (27.9 × 43.2 cm)
• Place used: Randalls Island, New York County, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Olympics
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Track and field
• Object number: 2017.56.6
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of 1964 Olympic Silver Medalist Marilyn E. White
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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