Tag: Helck Family Collection
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Mar 18 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Peter Helck’s Postcard Collection
Included in the Peter Helck Family Collection are nearly 300 postcards. Topics include automobiles (including over 30 from the Long Island Automotive Museum), US and foreign drivers and races and those of a comical nature.
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Mar 10 2020
Kleiner’s Korner: Mechanician Al Poole - Letters from Home
Included in the Peter Helck Family Collection is correspondence between Al Poole (chauffeur, mechanician and driver) and his father and brother between the years 1902 and 1906.
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Jan 22 2020
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Unique Watercolors Painted for Peter Helck from Fellow Artist John W. Burgess
From the Helck Family Collection comes a series of watercolor paintings personally created for Peter Helck by automobile artist John W. Burgess (1911-1992).
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Jan 06 2020
Mystery Foto #1 Solved: An Accident at the 1911 Indy 500 Race
The Helck Family Collection challenged you to identify the first Mystery Foto of the 2020s.
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Jan 04 2020
Helck Family Collection: Original Transcript- Willie K. and the “Race to Death”
Among the treasures of the Helck Family Collection is an original typewritten profile of William K. Vanderbilt, Jr. dated November 26, 1969. This section of the article describes Vanderbilt's participation in the 1903 Paris-Madrid Race which became known as the "Race of Death".
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Dec 23 2019
Mystery Foto #51 Solved: The 1917 Winton House Car Owned by James Melton
The Helck Family Collection challenged you again to solve this Mystery Auto.
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Dec 16 2019
Mystery Foto #50 Solved: Joe Tracy & Jerry Helck in Old 16 at the 1945 Franklin County Fair
The Helck Family Collection challenged you to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Dec 11 2019
Kleiner’s Kolumn: Al Poole’s Original Documents from the Helck Family Collection
The Helck Family Collection contains official documents pertaining to Peter Helck's friend Al Poole. The documents include his driving license and being summoned to appear in court, both in his home country of England and in the United States.
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Dec 03 2019
Helck Family Collection: Long Island Motor Parkway Inc. $1,000 Four Per Cent Gold Bond
In 1906 William K. Vanderbilt Jr. and his business associates raised $2 million ($57 million today) in stock to build the Motor Parkway. Eventually, more than $6 million ($171 million today) was raised including $1 million in 4% interest gold bonds.
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Oct 21 2019
Mystery Foto #42 Solved: The Team Reunion of Joe Tracy and Al Poole for the 1956 “Rerun”
The Helck Family Collection challenged you to identify this weekend's Old 16 Mystery Foto.
