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Harry’s Room

The Harry Leary Collection

Physical Harry Leary display area with frames, helmets, jerseys, trophies, photographs, a toolbox and other BMX artifacts arranged together in the Lititz BMX collection.

Two source pages become one room. The original LititzBMX.com page boundaries remain preserved in the source trail, but the public exhibit is organized by story rather than upload sequence.

Harry’s Room is a unified digital exhibit preserving 28 unique accession records connected to BMX legend Harry Leary. The room begins with the physical display and then opens into four exhibit zones: a trophy case, a rider’s wardrobe, a workshop bench and a memory wall.

This is not presented as an exhaustive inventory of every Harry Leary object held by Lititz BMX. It is the integrated archival release of the records supplied from the two original collection pages, designed to expand without creating “Page 3,” “Page 4,” or another artificial source-page division.

Room status Record
Unique accession records 28
Directly imaged records 27
Context-only image records 1 — artifact 26.0076
Source-page duplicate resolved 26.0048 — one trophy, two source appearances, one integrated record
Canonical ID normalization 26.0067, preserving legacy ID 67

Enter the room

The Trophy Case

Championships, recognition and public service

Awards and plaques connect the room to specific seasons, events, titles and moments when BMX reached beyond the track.

Dark trophy attributed to Harry Leary’s 1994 ABA Vet Pro title, photographed against a bright window.
26.0067 — 1994 ABA Vet Pro Title Trophy
Canonical ID normalized from legacy “67”.		Framed 2018 Cactus Park BMX State Championship Qualifier first-place plaque featuring Radical Rick artwork and a number-one plate.
26.0037 — Cactus Park BMX State Qualifier “1st” Place Radical Rick Plaque		Ornate two-handled F-1 Challenge cup trophy shown from several angles with its base and underside.
26.0048 — The F-1 Challenge Trophy
Wooden Supercross of BMX Pro Spectacular Top Money Winner plaque with two silver BMX rider figures, dated February 22, 1985.
26.0033 — Supercross of BMX “Top Money Winner” Plaque		ABA National Champion 2000 plaque presented to Harry Leary as National number three Vet Pro.
26.0028 — 2000 ABA Third-Place Plaque		Framed RAD Race Against Drugs plaque dated December 16, 1989, thanking Harry Leary for working toward a drug-free tomorrow.
26.0053 — Race Against Drugs “Harry Leary” Plaque
Framed 19th Annual White Bros World 4-Stroke MX Championship second-place award dated April 12 to 13, 2003.
26.0034 — 2003 World 4-Stroke MX Championship Second-Place Award		Front and back of a colorful 2015 California State Championship Qualifier award from South Lake Tahoe BMX.
26.0013 — 2015 California State Qualifier, South Lake Tahoe, Third-Place Tin

The Rider’s Wardrobe

Jerseys, helmets and race identity

Wearable objects preserve team identity, rider numbers, personal habits and the visual language of Harry Leary’s later BMX life.

Blue, white and red Fly Racing full-face helmet beside a laptop showing comparison footage used in the collection attribution.
26.0030 — Harry Leary’s 2017 UCI Worlds Championship Helmet		Black, yellow, silver and white full-face helmet marked HARRY, photographed from multiple angles with a contextual video still.
26.0062 — Harry Leary “Harry” DIRTWERX Helmet		Red, yellow and black Redman jersey marked LEARY and number 81, photographed front and back.
26.0018 — Harry Leary “Leary 81” Redman Jersey
Orange, black and white Thrill jersey marked LEARY, ROC and number one with Box branding.
26.0021 — Harry Leary Thrill ROC 1 Jersey		Red and orange BIOLAB and Peak Performance jersey marked LEARY, ROC, NAG and number one.
26.0023 — Harry Leary BIOLAB / Peak Performance ROC 1 Jersey		Black and yellow Fasthouse Speed Shop jersey marked LEARY and number four.
26.0025 — Harry Leary Fasthouse “4” Jersey
Black, gray, yellow and white DIRTWERX jersey marked LEARY, hanging against the room’s wood-paneled wall.
26.0063 — Harry Leary DIRTWERX Jersey		Facebook documentation showing a black, red and white Honda Fox racing jersey attributed to Harry Leary.
26.0039 — Harry Leary’s Honda Jersey		Worn dark Tangent beanie photographed beside another hat on a wood floor.
26.0064 — Tangent Beanie — “Smells Like Harry”
Blue Gary Turner BMX lanyard with a credential reading Harry Leary, Judge, for 20-inch age-group classes.
26.0040 — Harry Leary GT Judge Lanyard		Framed black, white and gray Fall Risk Racing number-plate decal marked Harry Leary and number five.
26.0050 — Harry Leary Fall Risk Racing 2023 Number-Plate Decal		Zeronine Apparel post and photographs of a black, white and orange BIOLAB jersey marked LEARY and number four.
26.0075 — BIOLAB “Leary 4” Zeronine Jersey
Context image showing a Zeronine Apparel post and the matching BIOLAB Leary jersey; the pants are not directly pictured.
26.0076 — BIOLAB “Harry” Zeronine Pants
Context image; direct pants photograph pending.

The Workshop Bench

Frames, bars and tools

The workshop objects show history as something built, adjusted, damaged, carried and kept in motion rather than merely displayed.

Wear-marked black multi-drawer toolbox with Honda, FMF, Renthal and other racing stickers.
26.0046 — Harry Leary’s Toolbox		Close-up of a red Specialized frame with a roadrunner graphic and a black marker signature attributed to Jeremy McGrath.
26.0038 — Harry Leary Specialized Hemi Frame Signed Twice by Jeremy McGrath		Close-up of a metallic green BMX frame marked HL TURBO 4, showing wear and damage near the bottom bracket.
26.0052 — Damaged Daylight HLT4 Frame — The Last HLT4
Black GHP cruiser handlebars with a red and white Tangent number 15 plate, shown in a Facebook research post.
26.0045 — GHP Cruiser Bars with “15” Plate

The Memory Wall

Correspondence, photographs and relationships

Letters, signed photographs and relationship records preserve the human network surrounding the artifacts.

Framed handwritten yellow letter from Dottie Ellis-Merki displayed beside a tall DIRTWERX decal.
26.0036 — Dottie Ellis-Merki Letter and DIRTWERX Decal		Framed vintage photograph of two BMX riders seated together with a trophy, identified as Harry Leary and Eddy King.
26.0065 — Photograph of Harry Leary and Eddy King at the NORA Cup		Front and back of a framed signed BMX action photograph or copy associated with Linda and Harry Leary.
26.0051 — Linda and Harry Leary Signed Copy

Read the room by story

Machine-readable access

Curatorial principle

Harry’s Room does not reduce the collection to possession or a list. It preserves the relationship between artifact, rider, event, team, friend, family member and continuing documentary record. The physical room provides the atmosphere; the structured records preserve the evidence; together they hold the essence of the collection even as individual objects continue through time.

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