Rev's Digital Library Standford Universirty. Hundreds of thousands of images of the history of automobiles and more specifically auto racing. This is the Bruce Craig Collection. It documents the history of open wheel racing in the United States.

All of this is courtesy of Stanford University Rev's Collection which you can enjoy here. There are over 300,000 images just in this collection. The Bruce Craig Collection contains 300,000 images of American motor sports from the 1910s through the 1970s. Craig was a documentary photographer and also collected the motor sport photography of other cameramen; included in the Craig Collection are the archives of photographers Ted Wilson and Vincente Alvarez. This vast array of prints and glass plate negatives cover oval track racing back to the days of the board tracks of the 1910s and 1920s. The Craig collection documents such famed venues as Ascot Park in California, Langhorne Speedway in Pennsylvania, and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. While primarily an archive of open wheel racing, including Indy cars, sprints and midgets, the collection also includes images of modified race cars and early NASCAR contests. In addition to the thousands of oval track racing images are a varied pictorial of early hill climb contests, souvenir images of race car drivers, track architecture, wrecks, pits and paddocks, and crowd scenes. Nearly every era of American racing scenes are represented, from the 1920s through the 1970s.