FIA license for Leonard Miller: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An Automobile Competition Committee for the United States/F.I.A. International License for Leonard W. Miller. Yellow plastic card with rounded edges. Blue type at top reads [AUTOMOBILE COMPETITION COMMITTEE/FOR THE UNITED STATES/Federation Internationale de l'Automobile/F.I.A. INTERNATIONAL LICENSE], with the F.I.A. logo in the left top corner. White rectangular blank with [ENTRANT] to the left, has handwritten [Leonard W. Miller] in blue ink, cursive, with [Signature] in small type below. In raised/relief black print, in bottom left corner of front, reads [E20691-75/BLACK AMERICAN RACERS/130 W. STATE ST./TRENTON, N.J./08608]. In small type on bottom right side, reads [PAT. NO. 3.034.430/LIC. NO. D.O.B./B.T. & S.S. NO./NAME/ADDRESS]. Nothing on reverse.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: ca. 1972
• Issued by: Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, founded 1904
• Owned by: Leonard Miller, American, born 1934
• Subject of: Black American Racers, Inc., founded 1969
• Type: licenses
• Medium: plastic, ink
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 2 1/8 × 3 3/8 × 1/16 in. (5.4 × 8.6 × 0.2 cm)
• Place depicted: Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Athletes
• Topic: Automobile racing
• Topic: Sports
• Object number: 2014.163.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Leonard W. Miller
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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