Maywood Racetrack Photos

The Melrose Park Public Library has historical photography displayed throughout the main floor of the building. Below are the photographs currently on display.

Keith Yearman Collection

Associate Professor, Geography

College of DuPage

A person in a military-style uniform and cap holding a baton or pointer, looking forward in a black-and-white photograph.

Untitled (Maywood Park Founder Arthur T. Galt), n.d.


Posthumous inkjet print, printed 2016 Photographer: Joseph Lucas, Jr. Courtesy of the Keith Yearman Collection

A jockey wearing a helmet and racing silks standing beside a horse with a white marking on its forehead.

Untitled (Driver Bea Farber and Easy Irv), 1974


Posthumous inkjet print, printed 2016 Photographer: Joseph Lucas, Jr. Courtesy of the Keith Yearman Collection

Two people side by side; one wearing a cap and jacket, the other wearing a hat, glasses, and a jacket with a hand on the shoulder.

Untitled (Driver Harry Burright and Paddock Judge Frank Pennino), n.d.


Posthumous inkjet print, printed 2016 Photographer: Joseph Lucas, Jr. Courtesy of the Keith Yearman Collection

A black-and-white, slightly blurred photo of a person in a uniform standing beside a horse in a stall.

Untitled (Driver Harry Burright Holds O.F. Brady, Feeding Junior The Raccoon), n.d.


Posthumous inkjet print, printed 2016 Photographer: Joseph Lucas, Jr. Courtesy of the Keith Yearman Collection

A bicycle wheel framed over the faces of a person and a horse, both appearing in black and white.

Untitled (Jean Sowash And Pleister), n.d.


Posthumous inkjet print, printed 2016 Photographer: Joseph Lucas, Jr. Courtesy of the Keith Yearman Collection