Barney Oldfield Images

Images from Barney Oldfield's racing career. Many of these are items collected from photocopies of newspapers preserved on microfilm. Many of the original photos have been lost to the ages, so some of these images rescued in this manner may be all that remains. While the quality is inferior by today's standards, they still provide interesting information about Oldfield and the events he participated in.

Barney Visits Speedway

This image was published in the May 18, 1909 Indianapolis Star and was used to report that America's race driver hero Barney Oldfield had recently visited the Indianapolis Motor Speedway while it was still under construction and declared it the "best on Earth."
 

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