Tag: Helck Family Collection
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Dec 17 2016
Helck Family Collection Treasure: The Layout and Design for the 1961 Book “The Checkered Flag”
Among the treasures in the Helck Family Collection are sketch books of the layout and design for Peter Helck's first book "The Checkered Flag". Here for the first time are the initial layouts for the proposed cover and chapters on the Vanderbilt Cup Races.
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Dec 13 2016
Mystery Foto#50 Solved:The 1911 FIAT S74 Driven by Barney Oldfield in the May 1912 Santa Monica Race
The Heck Family Collection challenged you again to identify this weekend's Mystery Foto.
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Dec 07 2016
The Peter Helck Scholarship in Realism Established at the The Arts Students League of New York
Roz and Howard Kroplick are pleased to announce the establishment of the Peter Helck Scholarship in Realism at The Arts Students League of New York. The scholarship is in honor of artist and historian Peter Helck for his pioneering contributions to automotive art and auto racing history.
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Nov 26 2016
The 1948 Tuckers: The Cammack Collection
My visit to the Hershey Fall Meet last month would not have been complete without a visit to see the world's largest collection of Tucker 48 automobiles and automobilia at the Cammack Gallery of the AACA Museum.
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Nov 19 2016
Helck Family Collection: The Very Early Automobiles of the Deutsches Museum (1885-1901)
The Helck Family Collection includes a book The Automobile Section of the German Museum in Munich. It features rare photos of over 100 automobiles that were exhibited in the Deutsches Museum in 1950.
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Nov 12 2016
Helck Family Collection: Old 16 on Display at the Henry Ford Museum in 1962
Since 1997, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan has been the home of Old 16, the winner of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race. Thirty-Five years earlier, Old 16 made its first appearance at Henry Ford's 1962 sports car review exhibit.
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Nov 02 2016
Helck Family Collection: The 1894 Paris-Rouen Race- The First “Road Wagon” Contest
The first competition among motor vehicles is generally considered to be the 79-mile "race" from Paris to Rouen on July 22, 1894. Thanks to the the Helck Family Archives, the 21 participants (six steamers and 15 propelled by gasoline or petrol) in this historic contest are documented below.
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Oct 17 2016
Mystery Fotos #42 Solved: A 1948 Picnic at Lowell Thomas’ Home in Pawling, New York
The Helck Family Collection challenged you again to solve this weekend's Mystery Fotos.
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Sep 26 2016
Mystery Foto #39 Solved:The First Documented Automobile Railroad Crossing Accident in the USA Update
The Helck Family Collection challenged you to identify this never-before-published Mystery Foto.
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Sep 23 2016
Helck Family Collection: December 1944 Esquire Article “Robertson Comes Through”
In the December 1944 issue of Esquire magazine, Paul Gallico provided this profile of George Robertson and the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup Race. The article was accompanied by a reproduction of this classic Vanderbilt Cup Race painting by Peter Helck.
