Auto Racing at Denver's Overland Park

Race car wreck / photo by Harry M. Rhoads.

Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 81-1975.

CREATED/PUBLISHED

[between 1910 and 1920?]

SUMMARY

View of a race car that has crashed and flipped over at Overland Park in Denver, Colorado. A crowd is gathered behind the wire fence.

Auto race / photo by Harry M. Rhoads.

Rhoads, Harry Mellon, 1880 or 81-1975.

CREATED/PUBLISHED

[between 1920 and 1930?]

SUMMARY

Overlook view of race cars on a dirt track, probably Overland Park in Denver, Colorado. Spectators watch from the sidelines.

Crowds fill the grandstand to watch dirt track automobile racing at Overland Park in Denver, Colorado.le.

View of automobile racing at Overland Park, in Denver, Colorado; people crowd bleachers by a water tower, and men watch race cars at the finish line.





Hi folks -- now a thriving neighborhood of middle class homes in an excellent location in Denver, Overland Park was once the site of a dirt race track. Here are a a few photographs that are a part of the Library of Congress' American Memory Digital Photograph Collection. The dates are between 1916 and 1930, but my best guess is that these photographs were taken closer to 1916.