Object Details
- Description
- Autograph given to collector Ed Rowlands by multi-sport athlete Jim Thorpe. Two pictures of Thorpe have been attached.
- 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.
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted
- Thorpe, Jim
- date made
- 1957
- 195
- 1951
- Credit Line
- Edwin A. Rowlands
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 20 in x 17 in; 50.8 cm x 43.18 cm
- Object Name
- photograph, football
- autograph
