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Race car driver Barney Oldfield on track at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles

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Title: Race car driver Barney Oldfield on track at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles
Date Created and/or Issued: 1932
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Barney Oldfield (1878-1946) behind the wheel of a Henry Miller race car in a practice run on the track at Legion Ascot Speedway, City Terrace, East Los Angeles.
Title devised by cataloger. Date determined from a similar digitized press photograph found online with caption "Los Angeles, Calif. 1932 - The old master of the dirt racing tracks ... Barney Oldfield is planning a comeback! ... pictured in one of Harry Miller's racing cars on the Ascot Speedway in one of his daily workouts ..." stamped International News Photos, Inc.(1932). Legion Ascot Speedway operated 1924-1936 in City Terrace, East Los Angeles. (Source: “History of America's Speedways, Past and Present" by Allan E. Brown).
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 photograph : film negative ; sheet 9.8 x 12.3 cm
Identifier: photCL_555
488922
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/18792
Subject: Automobile racing
Racetracks (Automobile racing)
Automobile racing drivers
Automobiles, Racing
Photographs. (aat)
Place: Los Angeles (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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