{"id":873,"date":"2011-05-28T00:32:58","date_gmt":"2011-05-28T04:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archives.nd.edu\/about\/news\/?p=873"},"modified":"2011-05-28T00:32:58","modified_gmt":"2011-05-28T04:32:58","slug":"scenes-from-the-1914-indianapolis-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/scenes-from-the-1914-indianapolis-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis 500"},"content":{"rendered":" <\/a>
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2011 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 and a few items regarding the early years of the Motor Speedway exist in the University of Notre Dame Archives.<\/p>\n

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Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Greatest Race Course in the World.\u00a0 This postcard is postmarked September 1910, a year before the first Indianapolis 500-Mile Race.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In 1913 and 1914, Notre Dame student Grover Miller<\/a> and a group of friends (presumably other ND students) attended the Indianapolis 500 Races.\u00a0 Below are some of the photographs from his scrapbook:<\/p>\n

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A straight-away on the track, 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Entrance to the tunnel with the Grand Stand on the right, 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Scoreboard, 1913<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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George Britton in car #47, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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View of the Judges’ Stand, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Notre Dame students? watching the races, including Bernie, Mike, Leos, and Mack, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Racer Joe Dawson’s wrecked Marmon, car #26, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Second-place winner Arthur Duray in his Peugeot, car #14, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Mike and Grover Miller driving 61 miles per hour in a car, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Muh and Mike eating a box picnic lunch, 1914<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Sources:<\/em>
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\nGFCL 55\/04<\/a><\/p>\n


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2011 marks the 100th Anniversary of the Indianapolis 500 and a few items regarding the early years of the Motor Speedway exist in the University of Notre Dame Archives. In 1913 and 1914, Notre Dame student Grover Miller and a group of friends (presumably other ND students) attended the Indianapolis 500 Races.\u00a0 Below are some … Continue reading “Indianapolis 500”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":4370,"featured_media":875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellaneous-history","tag-events"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-16 13:42:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/ndarchives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}