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LL/71009
Unidentified photographer
1932
Race car driver Barney Oldfield on track at Legion Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles

Photograph
9.8 x 12.3 cm
 
Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens
Call number: photCL_555, Unique Digital Identifier: 488922
 
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).
 
LL/71009


 

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