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Link to Image Titled: Friends Posed for Group Portrait
Title/Object Name: Friends Posed for Group Portrait
Creator: M. S. Fong
Date Original: 1938
Physical Details: 4 x 2.75 inches
Description: Nine young Chinese men recently immigrated to the United States, sitting for a dramatic group photograph. All, including photographer Fong, were employees of the Chinese restaurants, Holly Café and Pan-American Café.
Keywords: Business and industry, photography, people, Chinese Americans, Asian Americans.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H1-57.9.1

Link to Image Titled: Western Couch and Bedding Company
Title/Object Name: Western Couch and Bedding Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1938
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View looking southeast toward Western Couch and Bedding Company, 138 North Wichita Street. Bitting Building and Schweiter Building in 100 block of East Douglas Avenue in background. Missouri Pacific Railway tracks in foreground.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.11.1

Link to Image Titled: Eagle Building
Title/Object Name: Eagle Building
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1938
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Eagle Building, southwest corner of William and Market. The daily newspaper The Wichita Eagle was published here.
Keywords: Business and industry, street scenes, commercial buildings, automobiles.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1908

Link to Image Titled: KANS Radio Broadcast
Title/Object Name: KANS Radio Broadcast
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1938
Physical Details: 3.75 x 4.75 inches
Description: KANS Radio broadcast showing announcer, band and singer. KANS radio station began broadcasting in Wichita in 1936 and became a NBC affiliate in 1937.
Keywords: Wichita, people, arts and entertainment, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.8.3

Link to Image Titled: Mantle Factory at Coleman
Title/Object Name: Mantle Factory at Coleman
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1938
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Women using the knitting and sewing machines at mantle factory at Coleman Company.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.47.3

Link to Image Titled: Hinkels Dry Goods Company
Title/Object Name: Hinkels Dry Goods Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1938
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Hinkels Dry Goods Company, located at 101-09 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_wpl1438

Link to Image Titled: KANS Radio station sportscasters
Title/Object Name: KANS Radio station sportscasters
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1938
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: KANS Radio sportscasters ready to call the action. KANS began broadcasting in Wichita in 1936.
Keywords: Wichita, people, business and industry, sports and recreation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.8.1

Link to Image Titled: Nu-Way Sandwich Shop
Title/Object Name: Nu-Way Sandwich Shop
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1939
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Interior of Nu-Way Sandwich Shop located at 1416 West Douglas.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people, restaurants, lunch counters, interiors, advertising.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms99-3.2.restaurants.1

Link to Image Titled: Droll’s English Grill
Title/Object Name: Droll’s English Grill
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1939
Physical Details: 9.25 x 7.5 inches
Description: Interior of Droll’s English Grill with lunch counter and soda fountain. A related photograph appeared in the Wichita Eagle, December 10, 1939 announcing the formal opening of the restaurant at its new location, 3120 East Central Avenue. An accompanying advertisement proclaimed “new furnishings, modern kitchen equipment and up-to-date soda fountain.” The flower arrangements mark the occasion.
Keywords: Business and industry, furniture, restaurant ware, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-90.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Shadowlands Dance Club
Title/Object Name: Shadowlands Dance Club
Creator: Barnes Flying Service
Date Original: Circa 1939
Physical Details: 3.75 x 3 inches
Description: Aerial view of dance club at 2459 North Hillside Avenue; operated by band leader Gage Brewer [The black rectangle is an editor’s crop mark for publication]. The club also offered dance instruction with this 1943 advertisement: “This Famous Dance Club had Developed an Entirely New Method of Teaching Which Enables Anyone to Quickly Become a Popular, Interesting Partner. Save Time, Money, Disappointment, by Taking Our Guaranteed Course -- You Learn to Lead and Follow Correctly in Five Lessons.”
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, Gage Brewer’s Hawaiian Orchestra, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-102.1.1

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