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Link to Image Titled: Billboards at Douglas Avenue and Ellis Street
Title/Object Name: Billboards at Douglas Avenue and Ellis Street
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9.5 inches
Description: View looking south at billboards on southwest corner of Douglas Avenue and Ellis Street. Created by Western Sign Works Company, the billboards advertise Holmes Clothing Company, Peerless Dairy, Steel Hardware Company, and Wheeler-Kelly & Hagny Insurance.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, advertisements.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.66.9a.8

Link to Image Titled: Curtiss Oriole Plane
Title/Object Name: Curtiss Oriole Plane
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Curtiss Oriole Airplane.
Keywords: Aviation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl2018

Link to Image Titled: International Wheat Show Exposition
Title/Object Name: International Wheat Show Exposition
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 7 x 10 inches
Description: Five men carrying blocks of ice in preparation for a Wheat Show exhibit in the Wichita Forum, which was located in the 200 block of South Water Street. Various decorative objects, including a doll, a spray of wheat, a basket of flowers, a duck, and a row of apples are frozen in the ice. The City Market was part of the Forum Complex.
Keywords: Wichita, agriculture, arts and entertainment, business and industry, people, public events.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E10-7.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Mattie Laird in Cockpit
Title/Object Name: Mattie Laird in Cockpit
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1921
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Mattie Laird in the cockpit of a Laird Swallow.
Keywords: Aviation, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl581

Link to Image Titled: Members of the Printing Industry of Wichita
Title/Object Name: Members of the Printing Industry of Wichita
Creator: Frank A. Wesely
Date Original: 1921
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9.5 inches
Description: Group portrait of men who represented printing companies in Wichita. All are identified and their companies included the Wichita Eagle, Wichita Beacon, Mid-Continent Engraving, Love Corrugated Box Company, Grit Printing Company, Horner Print Company, Mid-West Bindery, Western Lithograph, Ballard Engraving Company, Advance Printing company, and Franklin Printing. The young woman is identified as the Executive Secretary of the Printing Industry of Wichita, offices at 408 York Rite Masonic Temple Building.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, organizations, clubs, and groups
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H1-52.1.1

Link to Image Titled: First National Bank
Title/Object Name: First National Bank
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1921
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: This was the second building located at 101 West Douglas and it was known as the Stanley Building. The National Bank of Commerce, housed in this building, was established in 1899. In February 1920, they consolidated with the Kansas National Bank, located across the street, to form the First National Bank. This building was then used as the temporary quarters of the First National Bank. The bank moved to their new quarters across Douglas Avenue in March 1922. This building was razed in 1928 to make way for a six-story office building called the Central Building.
Keywords: Business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1315

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Theater
Title/Object Name: Wichita Theater
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1921
Physical Details: 2.5 x 4.5 inches
Description: Wichita Theater, located at 310 East Douglas.
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, automobiles.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1347

Link to Image Titled: Horses Pulling Bus from Snow
Title/Object Name: Horses Pulling Bus from Snow
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Horses pulling a bus out of the snow. The location is between Estelle and Volutsia on East 13th street.
Keywords: Transportation, people, fashion.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1251

Link to Image Titled: Ritchie Construction Company
Title/Object Name: Ritchie Construction Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Wagon, teams, and steam-operated machines, including a “steam shovel,” owned by Ritchie Construction Company excavating a site at Second Street and Crestway in the College Hill neighborhood.
Keywords: Business and industry, development, residences, people, occupation, employment, street scenes, transportation, landscape, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E10-12.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Walter H. Beech and Laird Swallow
Title/Object Name: Walter H. Beech and Laird Swallow
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Walter H. Beech piloting three-place open cockpit Laird Swallow biplane in Wichita. Men in front places not identified. Beech's name is painted on plane marking his place. Laird Swallow airplanes were built in Wichita from 1919 to 1923.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, people, airplanes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.9

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