Blank Olympic silver medal representing the 1984 Summer Olympic Games held in Los Angeles, California. The medal has an embossed image of an athlete being hoisted in the shoulders of other athletes on one side and a woman draped in a toga holding a wreath on the reverse. Loop on top with two chain links, suspended by silk ribbon of pink, gold, and light blue/green stripes. Velvet blue container with blue velvet and white silk inside. This was not awarded at the Games but is a representation of what the athletes were given.
The 1984 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIII Olympiad were held in Los Angeles, California with 140 countries, 5,263 men and 1,566 women athletes participating. These Games were boycotted by fourteen countries, including the Soviet Union because of America’s boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. American Carl Lewis won four gold medals in track and field while Joan Benoit won gold for the U.S. in the first women’s marathon. Mary Lou Retton dominated women’s gymnastics becoming the first American to win the gymnastics all-around competition and the American men won the gold in the gymnastics team competition. With the addition of women’s only events of rhythmic gymnastics and synchronized swimming and the addition of women’s events in track and field, shooting and cycling, women athletes were just beginning to see results from Title IX legislation of twelve years prior. The United States won the medal count with 174.
This object is one of over 700 medically related objects used on the set of the television show M*A*S*H. Most of these items are authentic medical instruments, supplies, and equipment from the 1950s.
M*A*S*H was an award-winning television show based on the bestselling novel and Oscar winning motion picture film of the same title. It portrayed the lives of doctors and nurses assigned to a fictitious medical unit, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, based in Uijeongbu, Korea during the 1950-1953 war. The program was initially broadcast from September 17, 1972 to February 28, 1983.
After the show ended in 1983, Twentieth Century Fox donated material from the two major sets, the “Swamp” and the “Operating Theater,” to the museum, along with scripts, photographs, and interviews with individuals who served in MASH units in Korea and Vietnam. See accessions 1983.0095, 1985.0335, 1988.0748, 1988.3163, and archival collection NMAH.AC.0117, for further MASH material.
This postcard view of San Diego Mission was printed using photomechanical processes by the Van Ornum Colorprint Company in Los Angeles, Calif.
The Van Ornum Colorprint Company (1908-1921) was one of many picture postcard publishing companies producing historic landmark, and landscape scenes in California.
Mission San Diego de Alcalá, located in what is now called Mission Valley, was the first mission founded by Fr. Junípero Serra in 1769. It was the first of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823, and was built to convert American Indians of the Kumeyaay tribe to Catholicism.
Today the mission buildings include a parish church.
This postcard showing "Monterey Mission Chapel, Monterey, California" was printed using the halftone process by Van Ornum Colorprint Co. in Los Angeles, California circa 1910. The postcard was published as series number 583.
The Van Ornum Colorprint Company published tinted halftone postcards between 1908 and 1921, most depicting scenes of southern California.
Monterey Mission Chapel was founded in the early days of the missions (exact date unknown) at Monterey, California.
This postcard view of the Patio and Missionary Fathers' Residence at Our Lady, Queen of the Angels, Old Mission Plaza Church, was printed in 1913 by George Rice & Sons (1879-1993) of Los Angeles, Calif., using photomechanical processes.
Mission Nuestra Señora Reina de Los Ángeles Asistencia, also known as La Placencia, and Plaza Church, was founded in 1784 as an ancillary mission to Mission San Gabriel Arcángel which was the fourth of twenty-one Spanish Franciscan missions established in California between 1769 and 1823. Mission Nuestra Señora was founded to convert American Indians of the Tongva tribe to Catholicism.
This sheet music is for the song “Tonight We Love,” with lyrics by Bobby Worth and music adapted by Ray Austin and Freddy Martin. It was published by Maestro Music Company in Hollywood, California in 1941. The cover features an inset image of Freddy Martin, who featured this song with his orchestra.
The bright pink cover of this sheet music shows two of the most common tools of mathematics teaching, the blackboard and the textbook. According to the cover, the words and music to the love song are by Dave Franklin and Irving Taylor. The sheet music was published in 1946 by Martin Music of Hollywood, California. Freddie Martin and his Orchestra recorded the song for RCA.
This postcard showing "Santa Barbara Mission, Santa Barbara, California" was printed using the halftone process by Van Ornum Colorprint Co., Los Angeles, California. The postcard was published as series number 595.
Van Ornum Colorprint Co. was a publisher from 1908 to 1921 of unusually tinted halftone view-cards, mostly depicting scenes of southern California.
The Santa Barbara Mission was founded in 1786, and it is the most solid structure of its kind in California. This mission has a beautiful belfry.
The black comedy film Dr. Stangelove echoed public concerns about the cataclysmic potential of faulty communication systems, unstable leaders, the bomb, and nuclear annihilation.
Production drawing of Madame Upanova, the dancing ostrich, from the 1940 Disney animated film Fantasia. Madame Upanova is featured in the segment called “Dance of the Hours” and in the drawing she is depicted with ballet shoes and in a dynamic pose. This drawing is labeled #42.