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Link to Image Titled: Emporia Avenue
Title/Object Name: Emporia Avenue
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: 1955
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: View looking southeast toward 100 block of South Emporia Avenue. Some businesses include Surf Lounge, Lenders Loans, United Finance Corporation, Lexington Hotel, Ross Seed, Howse Public Parking and Flanagan Mortuary.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.4

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Neighborhood
Title/Object Name: Wichita Neighborhood
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1955
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: A typical 1950s era neighborhood in Wichita, the 200 block of North Bleckley is shown here. View is looking south from East 2nd Street.
Keywords: Wichita, residences, street scenes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Color Transparency
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.6.1

Link to Image Titled: Dockum Drug Company Inc.
Title/Object Name: Dockum Drug Company Inc.
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1955
Physical Details: 7 x 9.5 inches
Description: Looking southeast in intersection of Douglas and Broadway Avenues. Union National Bank Building houses Dockum Drug Store Number 2 on the ground floor (301 East Douglas). Businesses visible on the second floor include James E. Bennett & Company, stockbrokers, and Goldie’s Dress Salon.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, street scenes, automobiles, Christmas lights, Rexall, African Americans, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2SE-58.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Schweiter Building
Title/Object Name: Schweiter Building
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1956
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Schweiter Building, located at the northeast corner of Douglas and Main. Long's Shoe Salon was in the building. Notice the clock at the corner.
Keywords: Business and industry, automobile, street scenes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1467

Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1956
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: View looking west on East Douglas Avenue from Pennsylvania Street intersection. Ben Robinson Buick at 1520 East Douglas was the successor to longtime Wichita car dealership, Butts Buick. Many businesses along Douglas Avenue including Domestic Laundry are marked by vertical signs.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, signs.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.25

Link to Image Titled: Temporary Location of Bob Moore Oldsmobile
Title/Object Name: Temporary Location of Bob Moore Oldsmobile
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: 1956
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Temporary location of Bob Moore Oldsmobile, 1328 East Kellogg Street, at southeast corner of Kellogg and Lulu streets. Dealership moved east to 6215 East Douglas Avenue in October 1956.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, buildings
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.9

Link to Image Titled: Lerner Shops Building
Title/Object Name: Lerner Shops Building
Creator: Rorabaugh & Milsap Studio
Date Original: 1956
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Final touches are applied to downtown construction of Lerner Shops building at 212 East Douglas. Lerner closed this location in 1979. Signs affixed to plate glass attribute glazing to longtime Wichita business Carl Graham Paint & Wallpaper company.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.11.1

Link to Image Titled: Boulevard Theater
Title/Object Name: Boulevard Theater
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: 1956
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Movie-goers line up at Boulevard Theater located at southwest corner of George Washington Boulevard and Lincoln Street. Theater was part of Boulevard Plaza Shopping Center which opened in December 1951. View is looking east from frontage road called George Washington Drive.
Keywords: Wichita, arts and entertainment, people, business and industry, buildings, street scenes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.27

Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1956
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: View looking west on East Douglas Avenue from Mosley Street intersection. Some businesses are Standard Hotel, Grand Hotel, Dutchess Cafe, Sam's Sample Shoe Store and Miller's Recreation. Railroad overpass, Eaton Hotel, Union National Bank Building and Broadview Hotel in background.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.26

Link to Image Titled: Winters Jewelry
Title/Object Name: Winters Jewelry
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1956
Physical Details: 7 x 5 inches
Description: View of elaborate signage for Winters Jewelry store at 120 North Broadway. Other businesses shown are Klothes Kloset and Recreation Lanes, a bowling alley on the second floor.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.22

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