The Mother Road celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2026.
To prepare for the road’s 100th anniversary, the Illinois State Museum launched a “collecting initiative” in order to assemble objects from the road between 1926 and 1977, the Tribune reported.
The museum, located in Springfield, received a large contribution from the family of artist-cartographer Bob Waldmire, noted for his art pieces of the Mother Road. The donations include original drawings, paintings, prints, postcards, and a manual typewriter Waldmire used to write newsletters, thereported. They also include a hand-painted map of Route 66 that was designed on the hood of Waldmire’s 1965 Mustang, the newspaper reported.
“It is an honor for the museum to receive this donation of Bob Waldmire’s art and objects,” museum curator Erika Holst said in a statement. “No one symbolized the freedom and opportunity of the Mother Road better than Bob Waldmire.”
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