Personal Scrapbook of an Indy 500 Driver.

V.P.: N.p., 1962-1963. Original three-ring binder with an Indy %00 sticker on the front. The album deals with the best yearsws of Ebb Rose's racing career; 1962=62. It includes 17 professional silver gelatin photographs (each measuring 9 7/8 x 8 inches). and 64 color snapshot (each measuring 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches). Plus numerous clipped newspaper stories and some cuttings from the original programs. Neat and tidy history of a brief period in American car racing.Jesse Ebb Rose (February 27, 1925, Houston, Texas – August 27, 2007) was an American racecar driver. Rose raced in the USAC Championship Car series in the 1961–1963 seasons, with 4 career starts, including the 1961–1963 Indianapolis 500 races. His best finish at Indy was in 14th position in both 1962 and 1963. Rose was racing against some of the biggest names in racing history; Parnelli Jones, Bobby Unser and A. J. Foyt. There is one whole page of telegrams sent to Rose congratulating him on making the finals. Much of the later part of the album are about the fund raising efforts on the3 part of Jim Hurtubise, a fellow speedster who suffered terrible injuries at a big race in Milwaulkee in 1964 Rose headed and ran the Jim Hurtubise Rehabilitation Fund. Included is a large quarto entitled "Jim Hurtubise Rehabilitation Fund Gala". This is an 8-page brochure for the Gala held at the Sheraton-Lincoln Hotel in Houston on August 12, 1964. It is mainly filled with photographic illustrations of racers in their cars. They raised 9$400 for Jim Hurtubise, a sizable sum in 1964.