- On View
- Sports Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Sports: Leveling the Playing Field
- Created by
- Arcus - Simplex - Brown, Inc., American, founded 1945
- Subject of
- Patterson, Floyd, American, 1935 - 2006
- Ingemar Johansson, Swedish, 1932 - 2009
- Yankee Stadium, American, 1923 - 2008
- Rosensohn Enterprises, Inc., American
- Rosensohn, William, American
- Date
- June 25, 1959
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 2 1/2 x 7 in. (6.4 x 17.8 cm)
- Description
- 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…”
- Place depicted
- Bronx, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
- Type
- tickets
- Topic
- Athletes
- Boxing
- Sports
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2013.219.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




