Identity card used by Marilyn White at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An identity card from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics used by Marilyn White. The front cover of the card is blue plastic with gold writing. The writing reads: [CARTE D'IDENTITE / IDENTITY CARD / TOKYO 1964 / F 16695]. The bottom right has a cut-out where the number [16695] show through in black ink on white paper. Under the cut out there are Japanese characters in gold writing. The interior has white paper with black ink. Some of the pages have [Tokyo 1964] over the Olympic rings in the background. The first page has a section for a photograph that is empty. The rest of the page has fields filled in with typed information. The fields are in French and the entered information is in English. The second page is folded and folds outward and contains additional information about White. The bottom middle page has Avery Brundage, then President of the International Olympic Committee. There are also several stamps throughout the interior. The back of the identity card is blank.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1964
• Issued by: Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, Japanese, 1959 - 1966
• Used by: Marilyn Elaine White, American, born 1944
• Type: identity cards
• Medium: ink on paper and plastic
• Dimensions: H x W (Closed): 4 1/2 × 3 3/16 in. (11.4 × 8.1 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (Open): 4 1/2 × 9 3/16 in. (11.4 × 23.3 cm)
• Place used: Tokyo, Japan, Asia
• Place depicted: Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Olympics
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: Track and field
• Object number: 2017.56.1
• 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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