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Link to Image Titled: Pyle Lunch Room
Title/Object Name: Pyle Lunch Room
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1926
Physical Details: 6.5 x 4.5 inches
Description: Interior of Pyle Lunch with staff. Located at 910 West Douglas. Handwritten note on the back of the photo indicates, “In Wichita Kansas. Old part of town,” apparently a reference to the west side of town. The uniformed man appears to be a Wichita policeman.
Keywords: Business and industry, café, restaurant, menu, children, waitress, employee, employment, occupation, lunch counter.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-92.1.1

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Title/Object Name: "Woolaroc" and Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Travel Air Model 5000 flown nonstop from San Francisco to Honolulu by Arthur C. Goebel, fifth from right, to win Dole Race. Designers of airplane, Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, are second and third from left. Others, from left, are Howard Baccus, William Hauselman, "Pinky" Grimes, Ted Cochran, Ralph Morton, Harold Brooks, Horace Weihmiller and Clarence Clark.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.17

Link to Image Titled: Cessna Aircraft Company
Title/Object Name: Cessna Aircraft Company
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Seventeen men stand on wing of prototype model of Cessna cabin monoplane. Stunt was to demonstrate strength of airplane without wing struts. Photograph taken August 1927.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, people, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Dwane Wallace Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-18.21.7.1

Link to Image Titled: Spalton Photographic Studio
Title/Object Name: Spalton Photographic Studio
Creator: Arthur E. Spalton
Date Original: Circa 1927
Physical Details: 9.25 x 7.25 inches
Description: Mrs. Jennie B. Spalton seated at a roll top desk in the Spalton Studio. Examples of her husband’s photographs are displayed on the wall and desktop.
Keywords: Business and industry, photography, interiors, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_SpaltonStudio

Link to Image Titled: Stearman Fuselage
Title/Object Name: Stearman Fuselage
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Close-up view of Stearman Aircraft Company fuselage manufactured in Wichita.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter P. Innes, Jr. Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-01.1.12.1

Link to Image Titled: Phillips Petroleum Company Air Service Fuel Truck
Title/Object Name: Phillips Petroleum Company Air Service Fuel Truck
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Phillips Petroleum Co. Air Service Fuel Truck operating in Wichita. Walter Beech is standing next to the plane. The plane is a Travel Air 4000.
Keywords: Aviation, business and industry, people, airplane, truck.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl651

Link to Image Titled: Red Apple Restaurant and Filling Station
Title/Object Name: Red Apple Restaurant and Filling Station
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Red Apple Restaurant and Filling Station. Located at 3421 North Broadway.
Keywords: Business and industry, commercia building.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl637

Link to Image Titled: Stearman Aircraft Company
Title/Object Name: Stearman Aircraft Company
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Stearman biplane parked on landing field in front of factory at 801 West 37th Street North. Word "Burton" barely visible on smokestack. Burton Car Works, street car manufacturer, was original tenant of plant built in 1888; Jones Six automobiles built here in 1910s and 1920s.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter P. Innes, Jr. Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-01.1.11.2

Link to Image Titled: Mentholatum Building
Title/Object Name: Mentholatum Building
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Description: View of Mentholatum building on the northeast corner of Cleveland Street and East Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, health care, Yucca Company, Mentholatum, A. A. Hyde, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Edgar B. Smith Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_EBS723

Link to Image Titled: The Forum
Title/Object Name: The Forum
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Looking southeast at the Forum on Water Street between William and English. The entire building developed in stages over the years. The first section, on the south end officially opened in 1911. The Exposition Hall and Arcadia Theater on the north end were completed by 1918. At the time it was built, other proposed names for the facility included Hippodrome, Wigwam, and Wichitorium. The Forum hosted a range of public events from Pavlova and Paderewski to circuses and auto shows. It was demolished in 1965 to make way for the Century II Convention Center.
Keywords: Business and industry, arts and entertainment, public events, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, filling stations.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D9-6.1.1

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