A poster used in the Tea Party Movement. The Tea Party Movement began in 2009 and calls for lower taxes, supports smaller federal government, and oppose government sponsored healthcare.
Olympic credentials for horse owner, Akiko Yamazaki used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics is a yellow laminated card with a color photo of Yamazaki in the upper right corner. There is a yellow lanyard with the Beijing Olympics logo throughout attached to the card at the top by two metal hooks. There are three Olympic pins attached to the lanyard and include: Team USA, Peking 2008 and a white flag with a blue cross. Ravel is considered to be the most successful dressage horse in American History. His owner, Aikiko Yamazaki teamed Ravel up with rider Steffen Peters and they went on to a World Cup Final title, they swept the CHIO Aachen, won the only individual World Equestrian Games (WEG) dressage medals for the United States and have come closer to an individual Olympic dressage medal at the 2008 Beijing Games than any American team since 1932, placing fourth. Ravel retired from competition in 2013 and lives with Yamazaki at her Four Winds Farms.
The 2008 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad were held in Beijing, China with 204 countries, 6,305 men and 4,637 women athletes participating. The swimming competition included 65 World and Olympic records being set which most attribute to the use of the Speedo LZR Racer swimsuit developed in part my NASA. Michael Phelps won eight gold medals at these games, the most of any athlete in a single Olympic Games and broke many records. The LZR Racer was subsequently banned from competition as they gave the competitor a technical edge that was deemed unfair by FINA, the International Federation used by the International Olympic Committee for overseeing international water sport competitions. BMX racing was added to the cycling events and American Nastia Liukin won gold in the all-around gymnastic competition. Two disabled athletes competed in the Olympics instead of the Paralympics because neither used a prosthesis to give them an advantage in competition. The United States won the medal count with 112 but China won the gold medal count with 12 more than the Americans.
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog race sports card with a color photograph of Jon Van Zyle, the official artist of the Iditarod on the front of the card and a biography on the reverse. This was the year Van Zyle was inducted into the Iditarod Hall of Fame and this is his official card, 2004.
The Iditarod Sled Dog Race is an extreme sports challenge that tests the skill and endurance of competitors while celebrating Alaska’s sled dog culture and history. Teams of 12 to 16 dogs, primarily Alaskan Huskies, and their musher experience harsh terrain and weather conditions during the 1,150 mile run from Anchorage to Nome. In its modern iteration as an extreme sport, the Iditarod takes an intense physical toll not only on the human competitors but also on the sled dogs. The race follows a large network of Native trade and travel routes which travelers used when gold was discovered in the isolated town of Iditarod. This discovery led to a “rush” of miners and settlers from across the country, transforming the trail into the region’s main mail and supply route. The area’s harsh winter conditions made sled dog teams the main source of transportation along the Iditarod Trail and it is this rich history which the Iditarod race celebrates today. In 1978 Congress designated the 2300 mile Iditarod Trail as a National Historic Trail recognizing its importance in the shaping of America. Through its beginnings as a regional story, the Iditarod provides us the opportunity to explore the American Experience through the origins of the Iditarod National Historic Trail and the transformation of the Alaskan sled dog culture into an international sport. The Iditarod is now the largest and most prominent sled dog race in the world, attracting international competitors and world-wide media attention.
Jon and Jona Van Zyle are both artists who live outside of Anchorage and have raised sled dogs for many years. Jon has been a supporter of the Iditarod since it beginnings and ran the race in 1976. Jon produced the first official poster for the Iditarod in 1977 which was such a huge success he was voted official artist of the Iditarod in 1979, a position he holds to this day. Jona also contributes her artistic talents to the race by designing logos for the Junior Iditarod and race cachets for the Iditarod and personal cachets for various mushers.
To mark the annual harvest season, or “crush,” the Ravenswood Winery in Sonoma, California, produces a staff T-shirt. The work of the entire year culminates in the harvest, and weeks and weeks of intense, nearly non-stop work results in hundreds of gallons of wine fermenting in huge tanks.
Different each year, the special T-shirts solidify unity and celebrate shared identity among staff for the hard work of harvest and crush. The shirts identify the people who are helping create what will become a new vintage. The slogan typically plays off some bit of shared humor or insider’s knowledge, perhaps something the crew studied during the year. Wearing the shirts, the crew shares a private joke, while anyone who sees the shirt may wish to be in on the secret, to belong to the group.
This burgundy T-shirt, from the 2002 season, poses the question, Who is Crljenak Kastelanski? The question is not really who, but what, for Crjenak Kastelanski is the name of the Croatian grape that is the parent stock of modern Zinfandel. It was identified through DNA analysis by Dr. Carole Meredith of the Department of Viticulture and Enology at UC Davis, who worked in collaboration with Ivan Pejic and Edi Maletic, scientists at the University of Zagreb. Their discovery was announced in December 2001, providing the esoteric, insider’s knowledge for the 2002 harvest T-shirt at Ravenswood.
This saxophone was made by Yamaha Corporation, in Japan. It is a B-flat tenor saxophone YTS-62 Series, serial #003554. Made of brass. Stenciled on bell:
[Yamaha logo] YAMAHA JAPAN
and stamped:
YAMAHAYTS-62 003354
This saxophone was previously owned and used by American tenor saxophonist and bandleder, Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo, 1916–1992).
U.S. 37 cent stamp. Stamp features an image of an athlete running in the style of ancient Greek art. Stamp commemorates the 2004 Olympics. Affixed to paper backing. This was collected by the donor, Patricia Mink at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece.
The 2004 Summer Olympics, also known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad were held in Athens, Greece with 204 countries, 6,296 men and 4,329 women athletes participating. This was the first time the Games returned to their city of origin since the 1896 Games. American swimmer Michael Phelps earned six gold medals, setting a single-Games record with eight medals while the American women won the gold in the 4x200 relay. American Mariel Zagunis won the gold in the debut sport of Women’s sabre fencing and gymnast Carly Patterson became the second American woman to win gold in the all-around competition. The United States won the medal count with 101 medals.
