Joel Clyne Meadors Photograph Collection
Title
Joel Clyne Meadors Photograph Collection
Subject
Photography of horse sports
Description
Items in this collection were digitized from the Keeneland Library’s Joel Clyne Meadors Photographic Negative Collection. The collection, comprised of more than 5,000 acetate negatives, includes photographs of Thoroughbred horses, horse farms, racetrack scenes, horse sales, and people active in the Thoroughbred industry; as well as a group of negatives on business and commercial subjects in Lexington, Kentucky.
Joel Clyne “Skeets” Meadors maintained a full-time career as a photographer, specializing in conformation images of stallions, mares, and yearlings from 1947 to 1967.
Joel Clyne “Skeets” Meadors maintained a full-time career as a photographer, specializing in conformation images of stallions, mares, and yearlings from 1947 to 1967.
Rights
These digital resources may be freely searched and displayed. Usage permission must be received, and license agreement must be secured for any use or distribution in print or electronically, including social media usage. Physical rights are retained by Keeneland Library, and copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws. Contact Keeneland Library to secure required usage permissions and license agreements for these digital resources.
Collection Items
Army Air Troops at Keeneland, 1950
Army Air Troops stage a demonstration on the Clubhouse lawn in May 1950, a month before the United States entered the Korean War.
Original Sales Pavilion Building at Keenleand in 1962
Empty Sales Pavilion at Keeneland on a winter day
Angus Cattle Show in the Paddock at Keeneland, 1962
Spectators watching Angus cattle being shown and judged in the Paddock at Keeneland
Jousting Exhibition at Keeneland, 1962
Jousting demonstration as part of the Ladies at Home Makers exhibition at Keeneland
Construction of Section Connecting Grandstand and Clubhouse at Keeneland, 1963
Construction crew at work on the new section of the Grandstand and Clubhouse
Entrance to the Clubhouse at Keeneland, 1962
Cars parked outside the entrance to the Clubhouse at Keeneland in winter
Track, Clubhouse, and Grandstand at Keeneland, 1962
View of the track, Clubhouse, and Grandstand from the infield at Keeneland after snowfall
Aerial View of Keeneland in 1963
Aerial view during construction of the new section connecting the Grandstand and Clubhouse at Keeneland
Doubledogdare Winning the First Running of the Spinster Stakes at Keeneland in 1956
One of the goals for Keeneland’s founders was to establish races for fillies and mares in order to test the endurance and speed of breeding stock. The Spinster Stakes was proposed by Hal Price Headley and inaugurated at the 1956 Fall Meet as the…
Horses During a Race at Keeneland, 1958
Horses approach the finish line during a race at Keeneland while crowds watch from the Grandstand and the track apron