Ticket to a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Ticket to the World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson. The ticket is purple with black and red printed text. The text appears both horizontally and vertically on the ticket. The horizontal text on the left side of the ticket begins “YANKEE STADIUM / 161ST & RIVER AVENUE…”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: June 25, 1959
• Created by: Arcus - Simplex - Brown, Inc., American, founded 1945
• Subject of: Floyd Patterson, American, 1935 - 2006
• Subject of: Ingemar Johansson, Swedish, 1932 - 2009
• Subject of: Yankee Stadium, American, 1923 - 2008
• Subject of: Rosensohn Enterprises, Inc., American
• Subject of: William Rosensohn, American
• Type: tickets
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 2 1/2 x 7 in. (6.4 x 17.8 cm)
• Place depicted: Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Boxing
• Topic: Sports
• Topic: U.S. History, 1953-1961
• Object number: 2013.219.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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