Admission ticket for an athletic event at the 1960 Summer Olympics: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A ticket for admission to an athletic event at the Stadio Olimpico during the 1960 Rome Olympics. The ticket is pink with a red graphic of the portico of the Temple of Saturn. The portico is depicted as ruins with a piece of a fallen column in the foreground on the bottom center. Behind the portico, additional monuments and architecture can be seen. Below center to the right of the portico is a white graphic of the Olympic Stadium. At the top in the center is a block of red text and the logo of the 1960 Rome Olympics. The logo features the Olympic rings capped with a statue of the Capitoline Wolf and the date in Roman numerals. On the right side of the ticket is a stylized clock with the time at 3 o'clock and a white graphic of a track runner. Information about the event is printed in Italian above and below the image of the clock and runner. The reverse of the ticket features a black and white image of the Olympic Stadium. To the left of the image is a column of text with instructions. In the lower left quadrant is a vertical stamp of the ticket number.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1960
• Illustrated by: Corrado Mancioli, Italian, 1904 - 1958
• Printed by: Salomone, Italian
• Distributed by: Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVII Olympiad, Italian, 1958 - 1960
• Owned by: Dick Howard, American, 1935 - 1967
• Type: admission tickets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 3 13/16 x 6 1/16 in. (9.7 x 15.4 cm)
• Place depicted: Rome, Roma, Italy, Europe
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Olympics
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Track and field
• Object number: 2012.140.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Howard Family
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © International Olympic Committee Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.