Katherine Stinson with Barney Oldfield at Ascot Speedway, Los Angeles, California, November 29, 1917

Artifact Overview

Two celebrity daredevils meet in this 1917 photo. Barney Oldfield raced bicycles before moving to automobiles in 1902. He traveled the country staging exhibition races for enthusiastic crowds. Katherine Stinson earned her pilot's license at age 21 and began exhibition flying in 1913. The petite Stinson performed difficult stunts with ease and charmed the press who dubbed her the "Flying Schoolgirl."

Artifact Details

Artifact

Negative (Photograph)

Subject Date

29 November 1917

Collection Title

Phil Harms Collection

Location

By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center

Object ID

2009.103.N.223.10

Credit

From the Collections of The Henry Ford.

Color

Black-and-white (Colors)

Dimensions

Height: 1 in
Width: 1.5 in

Keywords	United States, California, Los Angeles Negatives (Photographs) Photographs Air pilots Cars Stinson, Katherine, 1891-1977 Oldfield, Barney, 1878-1946 Ascot Speedway (Los Angeles, Calif.) Automobile racing Automobile racing drivers Automobiles Racing cars Stunt flying Women air pilots