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Link to Image Titled: Rooming House Interior
Title/Object Name: Rooming House Interior
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1940
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2 inches
Description: View of bedroom in rented room above the popular Chinese-owned restaurant, the Pan-American Café at 152 North Market. The room was occupied by King Mar, who managed the café for 51 years (1928-1969).
Keywords: Chinese Americans, Asian Americans, residences, homes, domestic scenes, furniture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_R4-152.N.Market-1

Link to Image Titled: Gage Brewer Orchestra
Title/Object Name: Gage Brewer Orchestra
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1940
Physical Details: 3.75 x 2.75 inches
Description: Musical group identified as Gage Brewer's Versatile Radio Orchestra. Group leader Gage Brewer is standing at left of woman vocalist.
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, musician, dance bands, brass instruments, percussion instruments, steel guitars, public events, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H5-36.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita High School East
Title/Object Name: Wichita High School East
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1940
Physical Details: 4 x 6 inches
Description: View looking southeast toward Wichita High School East located at 2301 East Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Wichita, education, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.70.16.2

Link to Image Titled: Wichita High School North
Title/Object Name: Wichita High School North
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1940
Physical Details: 4 x 6 inches
Description: View looking northwest toward Wichita High School North located at 1437 Rochester.
Keywords: Wichita, education, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.70.16.1

Link to Image Titled: Ellis-Singleton Building
Title/Object Name: Ellis-Singleton Building
Creator: Mid-Continent Engraving Co.
Date Original: 1940
Physical Details: 7 x 5 inches
Description: Entrance to the Ellis-Singleton Building at 221 South Broadway. The building, now known as the Petroleum Building, was completed in 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, buildings, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.70.19.1

Link to Image Titled: Emery's Service Station
Title/Object Name: Emery's Service Station
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1940
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Emery's Service Station, located at 254 North Water. Emery M. Lieurance was the owner.
Keywords: Business and industry, automobile, billboard.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1872

Link to Image Titled: St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Title/Object Name: St. Paul's Lutheran Church
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1940
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: St. Paul's Lutheran Church, 839 North Market.
Keywords: Religion, people, fashion.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1958

Link to Image Titled: Children Arriving at First Baptist Church
Title/Object Name: Children Arriving at First Baptist Church
Creator: Mid-Continent Engraving Co.
Date Original: Circa 1940
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Children arriving during snow storm for week day religious school at First Baptist Church Educational Building, 315 North Broadway. First Methodist Church in background. Wichita Transportation Corporation bus delivered children to school.
Keywords: Wichita, religion, people, transportation, street scenes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.69.43.2

Link to Image Titled: 1700 Block, North Volutsia Street
Title/Object Name: 1700 Block, North Volutsia Street
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1941
Physical Details: 3.75 x 2.25 inches
Description: Looking northwest at west side of North Volutsia Street. View of newly-constructed homes typical during the housing boom of World War II. Sometimes described as "American Vernacular" or "Minimal Traditional" architecture. Many such neighborhoods accommodated the influx of defense workers in Wichita.
Keywords: Residences, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_NorthVolutsia.1700

Link to Image Titled: Downtown Wichita
Title/Object Name: Downtown Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1941
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View looking north toward busy intersection of East Douglas Avenue and Broadway Street. Photograph taken at Saturday noon, June 14, 1941. Some businesses are S. H. Kress & Co., 224 East Douglas Avenue, and Miller Theater, 121 North Broadway. Miller's marquee advertises movie "Blood and Sand."
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, people, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.36.2

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