Object Details
- Description (Brief)
- Black and white photograph of Ben Levine seated at a table with officials of the A.A.U. and New York Newspaper sportwriters, at the Calvert banquet, September 17, 1937. List of the names of the attendees handwritten on the back of the photograph. There are 14 men in the photograph. Levine was a participant in the development of amateur sports competition from 1902 as a boy of 13 when he went to work for James Sullivan, President of the Amateur Athletic Union until his retirement from the A.A.U. in 1968. Levine's primary contribution was to Amateur boxing, which he first promoted prior to 1920. He staged the first Golden Gloves and was the Assistant Manager of te U.S. Boxing teams at the 1924 and 1928 Olympic Games and an international jurist in boxing at the Olympics in 1932.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- depicted (sitter)
- Levine, Ben
- date made
- 1937
- Credit Line
- Bertram Levine
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 10 in; 20.32 cm x 25.4 cm
- Object Name
- photograph, boxing
