 The
Tihen Notes are a
collection of searchable, transcribed notes from Wichita's major
newspapers. Dr. Edward N. Tihen, a Wichita physician, historian
and bibliophile, read and took notes from nearly every issue of
Wichita's newspapers between 1872 and 1982. His voluminous
notes reflect the people, places and events that have shaped Wichita's
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Dating
from 1878 to 1977, the older city directories for Wichita
are housed in Special Collections. The library's general
stacks are where you will find the current directories.
We also have suburban directories for 1957-1977;
the recent editions are in the stacks.
Updated yearly, the city
directories contain information about the city and its residents,
listing street addresses and occupations; its businesses
through alphabetic and classified listings; and its schools, organizations,
churches and history.
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Our manuscript collections are arranged
by subject. On the web site, you may examine the finding
aids for the papers of J. R. Mead, one of Wichita's founders;
Wichita aviation pioneers, Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech; or Ted
Sheahon whose interest in Wichita's Orpheum theater sparked
its ongoing restoration, just to name a few. We invite you
to browse our online finding aids.
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The
map collection
includes maps of Wichita and Sedgwick County. The earliest
map of Wichita dates from 1868.
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A
set of Sanborn Fire Insurance Company maps for Wichita,
dating from 1935 with updates to 1957, are part of our local history
resources. These folio-sized sheets show Wichita at
a large scale, detailing materials used in construction, interior
arrangement, type of use, size and location of buildings. These
maps illustrate a few blocks at a time for a specific time period.
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Photographs,
postcards and broadsides of and about Wichita comprise
the images in the collection. The Richard
M. Long Collection and the Wichita
Photo Archives showcase some of our Wichita-related photographs.
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Materials documenting
Fairmount College, University of Wichita and Wichita State University
are housed in the University Archives.
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Books are accessible via Wichita
State University Libraries online catalog. |
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Vertical files
contain clippings and other documents arranged alphabetically by
subject.
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