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Glenbow Museum Archives
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Barney in Canada, about 1913
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Detail from a 1914 copper etching made to commemorate Barney's car-plane match races with Lincoln Beachey (see below).
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Motor Age, March 4, 1915
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Celebrities at the San Francisco Grand Prix, Feb. 27, 1915: Left to right, Mayor James Rolph Jr., Barney Oldfield, and California Gov. Hiram Johnson.
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Speed was partly show business in the early 20th Century, and Barney tried
it all -- barnstorming, the movies, even Broadway. The clipping below is from The New York Times, Jan. 17, 1906.
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1913
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Copper etching made to commemorate "The Great Race" between Oldfield and Beachey at the 1914 Scott County Fair in Iowa. The plate was found in 2005 at an antiques shop in Amana, iowa. Purchased for Rumbledrome.com on ebay.
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Beachey and Oldfield
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Photo courtesy of Wayne Carroll Petersen
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Barney and the pilot Lincoln Beachey ran a series of 75 exhibitions, including races between them, in 1914.
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Beachey-Oldfield souvenir postcard
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Indianapolis 1932: Left to right, Gar Wood, Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, Barney and Dr. Boyd Gardner of the Mayo Clinic.
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Fulford, Fla., 1926. Barney is the official starter and visits here with Ralph Hepburn.
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1927, the first of three Hollywood appearances for a man who seemed larger than life.
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Souvenir postcard from the Oldfield & Kipper Buffet, about 1914. Jack Kipper was James Jeffries' manager and at one time was an official of the California Boxing Commission.
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Photo courtesy of Wayne Carroll Petersen
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Barney with Henry Ford, seated, and Edsel Ford.
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Barney, the Golden Submarine and Anita King, the Paramount actress who was the first woman to drive across the continent by herself.
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