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Link to Image Titled: Kansas Theater
Title/Object Name: Kansas Theater
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Kansas Theater, located at 221 East Douglas. The entrance to Dockum Drug Company can be seen next door.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, fashion, bicycle.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1432

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: Billboards in Downtown Wichita
Title/Object Name: Billboards in Downtown Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 7 inches
Description: Billboards at southwest corner of William and Lawrence (Broadway) streets, on site where McClellan Hotel now stands. Created by Wichita company Western Sign Works, billboards advertise Comley Lumber, Wichita Automobile and Eberhardt-Hays Music companies.
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.3

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Flour Mills
Title/Object Name: Wichita Flour Mills
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1922
Physical Details: 9.75 x 8 inches
Description: Wichita Flour Mills' employee filling Kansas Expansion Flour sacks. The mill was located at 17th street and Santa Fe avenue. Top portion of image is cropped. Calendar in background shows January 1922.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, agriculture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.47.5

Link to Image Titled: Kansas Theatre
Title/Object Name: Kansas Theatre
Creator: Frank A. Wesely
Date Original: 1922
Physical Details: 7.5 x 9 inches
Description: Exterior of Kansas Theatre at 221 East Douglas Avenue. The entrance to the theater replicates the ticket booth to a horse-racing track to advertise the feature film “Kentucky Derby.” Signs proclaim “Races 11 to 11” and “Place All Bets Here.” The black and white silent film opened in 1922.
Keywords: Entertainment, business and industry, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D8-7.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue
Creator: Homer T. Harden
Date Original: Circa 1923
Physical Details: 3 x 4 inches
Description: Birdseye view looking west on Douglas Avenue near the intersection of Market Street. Broadview Hotel in background.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, transportation, street scene, streetcar, trolley, automobile, traffic.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_U2-2.1.7

Link to Image Titled: Parade Scene
Title/Object Name: Parade Scene
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1924
Physical Details: 4 x 2 inches
Description: Looking east in the 300 block of Douglas Avenue, July 8, 1924. Group of people identified as “Rorabaugh Pioneers” (employees of Rorabaugh Dry Goods Company) are celebrating the annual Rorabaugh Employees Company Picnic with a parade. Business signs in view: Innes Cosgrove Music, Midwest Insurance Company, Toy Land, Orr’s Book Store, Newark Shoe Store, J. W. Jenkins & Sons Music Company, Western Pacific Tea Company, Wichita Hotel, and Eaton Hotel.
Keywords: Business and industry; organizations, clubs and groups; public events; street scenes; Wichita; fashion; children; automobile; transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_L1-22.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Wesley Pharmacy Interior
Title/Object Name: Wesley Pharmacy Interior
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1924
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior of Wesley Pharmacy, located at 501 North Hillside. Earl Mansford, Claude Bennett (owner), and John Bowers (fountain jerk).
Keywords: Business and industry, people, African American, soda fountain
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1923

Link to Image Titled: Wichita High School East
Title/Object Name: Wichita High School East
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Aerial view over campus of Wichita High School and Roosevelt Intermediate School. Looking southwest toward Lincoln Street; Douglas Avenue in foreground intersects with Grove Street at lower left. The complex of the high school included the main building, the gymnasium, and the shops. The new school boasted an auditorium with seating for 2200, a laundry, an ice plant, an office vault, a greenhouse, and a heating plant [A History of Wichita Public School Buildings, 1978, p 179]. The curve of trees at right indicates the original bed of Chisholm Creek which was straightened into the canal that bisects the view diagonally at top.
Keywords: Education, business and industry, rivers, residences, street scenes, houses, landscape, East High, neighborhood, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-35.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Frank and Mabel Sweney
Title/Object Name: Frank and Mabel Sweney
Creator: Frank A. Wesely
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 9.5 x 6.75 inches
Description: Studio portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sweney, owners of Sweney Bakery at 1011 West Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, West Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_Sweney,Frank&Mabel

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