Sujet

Ticket to a boxing match between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson, June 25, 1959. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The World Heavyweight Championship boxing match between African-American Floyd Patterson (1935-2006) and Swede Ingemar Johansson (1932-2009) was held at the Yankee Stadium in New York City. Johansson beat Patterson to take the World Heavyweight Champion title. 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…”

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM21A78_058

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

43,5Mo (2,1Mo) / 54,3cm x 20,1cm / 6412 x 2371 (300dpi)

Mots clés

people black sport stadium industry country museum color boxing industrial location century company ticket African American African-American afro-american fifties 1950s United States of America Colour Inc. Yankee Stadium 20th century boxing match heritage American America USA decade united states Unknown Patterson World Heavyweight Championship Ink on paper cultural heritage Black History Heritage Art National Museum of African American History and Culture NMAAHC Floyd Floyd Patterson tickets Arcus-Simplex-Brown Ingemar Johansson Jens Ingemar Johansson Johansson Ingo Ingemar Ingo Johansson Jens Ingemar