1964 U.S. Olympic Team Trials Women's Track and Field

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A program for the 1964 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Track and Field. The front cover of the program is yellow and white with red, blue, white, and black ink. The text on the cover reads: [1964 U.S. Olympic Team Trials / Women's Track & Field / Downing Stadium Randalls Island, N.Y. / August 6-8, 1964 / Fifty Cents]. There is a red sun in the top right cover with the text [Tokyo] written underneath. There is a shield of red, white and blue with the Olympic rings in the lower portion of the cover. In the bottom left corner there is an image of track runners. The text to the right of the image reads: [Wilma Rudolph enroute to 400-meter relay victory in 1960 Olympic Games]. The interior contains forty-eight pages of images and text about the U.S. Olympic committee, the athletes, and the trials.

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