Last issue we told you about Joe Freeman successfully placing his collection—amounting to over a million historic motorsports photographs, artifacts, memorabilia, books, and programs—with the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (MSHFA) in Daytona Beach, Florida. You can review one of Joe’s presentations from the Argetsinger Symposium below.
Another longtime SAH member (#1003), Gordon Eliot White, has also been successful finding a home for materials he’s collected. As Gordon noted, “Among those papers were 12,468 blueprints and engineering drawings of American racing cars and engines. They went to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn during the time Bob Casey was the curator.” You can review one of Gordon’s presentations from the Argetsinger Symposium below.
More recently Gordon donated a great deal of his other racing materials to the Eastern Museum of Motor Racing in Latimore, Pennsylvania and is planning on giving them more once weather has warmed later this year. Other materials have been donated to Indianapolis Speedway Museum. Additionally, material used to write his column about government surplus usable by radio amateurs and other World War II electronics for CQ Magazine and AOPA Pilot during 1964-1975 went to the Smithsonian.
Lastly, during the January 25 Chin Wag zoom gathering, Louis Fourie (SAH #3158) said that he had automotive magazines, with a special emphasis on those from South Africa, as well as his research materials used to write his award-winning three volumes of On a Global Mission: The Automobiles of General Motors International. All he was willing/interested in donating but especially he hoped that GM’s Heritage Archives would welcome those files related to his three volumes about it. As it happened, one with authority to speak for GM’s Heritage Archive in his day job was also part of the Chin Wag and he voiced acceptance of Fourie’s donation on the spot! (hvh)