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Link to Image Titled: Allis Hotel
Title/Object Name: Allis Hotel
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9.25 inches
Description: Birdseye view of the Allis Hotel, 204 South Broadway. The seventeen-story building was designed by the architectural firm of Schmidt, Boucher, and Overend. It opened for business on December 4, 1930. The rooftop sign was constructed by Claude Neon Federal Company. Other businesses partially in view include, Rock Island Lumber & Coal Company, Iten Biscuit Company, Grit Printery Building. The hotel-owned Kit Kat Coffee Shop is seen at 212 South Broadway.
Keywords: Business and industry, architecture, street scenes, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D6-13.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Conoco Filling Station
Title/Object Name: Conoco Filling Station
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: One of fourteen Continental Oil Company service stations listed in the 1931 telephone directory. Unidentified location. Example of domestic architectural styling. When automobiles were new, gas station buildings were designed to resemble small houses so that they would blend into the residential neighborhoods.
Keywords: Business and industry, street scenes, transportation, residences, gas station architecture, Tudor Revival, bungalows, gas pumps, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E3-59.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Pierce Arrow Sales Salon
Title/Object Name: Pierce Arrow Sales Salon
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of automobile salesroom at 1404 East Douglas Avenue. Distributorship owned by Smith Motor Company.
Keywords: Business and industry, transportation, furniture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-95.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Fourth National Bank
Title/Object Name: Fourth National Bank
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Fourth National Bank, located at 202-206 East Douglas.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, automobile.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1462

Link to Image Titled: McKenzie Midget Auto
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Young boys grouped around a miniature automobile built by Leo L. McKenzie, who owned McKenzie Body Works, 117 West First Street. McKenzie specialized in building and retrofitting trucks to suit the owners’ needs. He also repaired damaged cars and remodeled some early models into pickup trucks. Businesses in the background include Golden Rule Oil Company on First Street and White Castle Hamburgers at intersection of Broadway and First.
Keywords: Street scenes, business and industry, people, children, African Americans, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.4

Link to Image Titled: Goodrich-Silvertown, Inc. Filling Station
Title/Object Name: Goodrich-Silvertown, Inc. Filling Station
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Looking southwest across First Street at the Goodrich-Silvertown filling station, 159 North St. Francis Avenue. Sign on truck indicates date of Grand Opening. Good example of Art Deco/Art Moderne commercial architecture. The Allis Hotel and the Union National Bank are partially seen in background.
Keywords: Business and industry, transportation, automobiles, trucks, gas pumps, gas station architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-110.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Stearman Aircraft factory
Title/Object Name: Stearman Aircraft factory
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view of Stearman Aircraft factory completed in late 1930 on South Oliver Street. View is looking northeast toward biplane flying over factory, and hangars and partially completed administration building at Wichita Municipal Airport. 31st Street South angles across center of image.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, aerials.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.39.6

Link to Image Titled: Friendly Fever Clinic at 1028 North Broadway
Title/Object Name: Friendly Fever Clinic at 1028 North Broadway
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1934
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Friendly Fever Clinic at 1028 North Broadway, founded in 1934 by Drs. W. M. Edgerton and C. E. Richter; a clinic for homeopathic treatment
Keywords: Wichita, health care, residences, business and industry, Friendly Fever Clinic, Dr. W. Meredith Edgerton, Dr. Clarence E. Richter, Dr. Loren B. Miller, Anna Miller, diathermy, Biological Molecule Resonance Generator, homeopathy, doctors, medicine.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Edgar B. Smith Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_EBS408

Link to Image Titled: Cessna Engineering Department Test Group
Title/Object Name: Cessna Engineering Department Test Group
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1934
Physical Details: 5.5 x 9.5 inches
Description: Dwane Wallace, second from right, poses with other members of Cessna Aircraft Company's engineering department test group. Wallace, nephew of founder Clyde Cessna, guided the company from 1934 to 1975.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Dwane Wallace Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-18.21.26.1

Link to Image Titled: Ben Sibbitt Iron and Foundry Company
Title/Object Name: Ben Sibbitt Iron and Foundry Company
Creator: Barnes Aerial Surveys
Date Original: 1935
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view of Ben Sibbitt Iron and Foundry Company located at 217 Moore Street.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, aerials.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.13.1

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