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Link to Image Titled: Fairmount Hall after fire
Title/Object Name: Fairmount Hall after fire
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: People viewing the scene after the fire at Fairmount Hall, at Wichita University, northeast corner of 17th street and Hillside.
Keywords: Education, people, children, bicycle, fires.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl444

Link to Image Titled: S. H. Kress & Company
Title/Object Name: S. H. Kress & Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 7.75 x 9.5 inches
Description: Interior view of the Kress Department Store at 224 East Douglas Avenue. The lunch counter and additional retail goods were located in the basement level of this national chain store.
Keywords: Business and industry, five and ten-cent stores, five and dime, dime stores, chain stores, furnishings, cafes, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-96.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store
Title/Object Name: Piggly Wiggly Grocery Store
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 4.75 x 2.75 inches
Description: Interior of Piggly Wiggly Store Number 11, 1558 South Main Street.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, Wichita, retail, employment, occupation, foodstuffs, household products, shopping.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-44.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Innes Tea Room
Title/Object Name: Innes Tea Room
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.25 inches
Description: Interior of tea room located in the Innes Dry Goods Company, 121 South Lawrence (now Broadway). The popular restaurant retained a reputation as a fashionable downtown eating place into the 1960s.
Keywords: Business and industry, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-40.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Title/Object Name: Domestic Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Looking slightly southeast at Domestic Laundry (1425 East Douglas Avenue). Business at right is Wichita Auto Wash (1407 East Douglas).
Keywords: Business and industry, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2SE-24.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Delivery by Travel Air Airplane
Title/Object Name: Delivery by Travel Air Airplane
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Demonstrating ability to land in farm field, Travel Air plane delivers parts to wheat harvesting crew near Wichita.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, agriculture, people, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.38

Link to Image Titled: S. H. Kress & Company
Title/Object Name: S. H. Kress & Company
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 7.75 x 9.5 inches
Description: Looking toward the northwest corner at the intersection of Lawrence (now Broadway) and Douglas Avenues. The Kress company replaced a former building on this site (224 East Douglas) with this elegantly styled building on the prospect that it would encourage sales. The structure is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Other businesses in view include the Miller Theatre (115 North Lawrence), Schnoor Chocolate Company (115 North Lawrence), Miller Recreation/Billiards (3rd floor, Miller Theatre Building), Puls Music Company (220 East Douglas).
Keywords: Business and industry, Commercial Gothic, architecture, five and ten-cent stores, five and dime, dime stores, chain stores, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-79.2.1

Link to Image Titled: First Aid Department at Travel Air
Title/Object Name: First Aid Department at Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of first aid department at Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Photograph taken May 16, 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, health care, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.6

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air
Title/Object Name: Travel Air "Mystery Ship"
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of the Travel Air Model R monoplane known as the "Mystery Ship" in front of Travel Air factory. The airplane, designed by Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, was the first civilian aircraft to defeat a military one in the annual National Air Race.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation, airplane, Travel Air Manufacturing Company, Mystery Ship.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter E. Burnham Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms80-2.29.7.1

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air Model R
Title/Object Name: Travel Air Model R
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Travel Air Model R monoplane known as the "Mystery S" or "Mystery Ship." Designed by engineers Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, it was first civilian aircraft to defeat military one in annual National Air Race in 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter E. Burnham Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms80-02.29.7.3

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