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Link to Image Titled: Wichita Municipal Airport
Title/Object Name: Wichita Municipal Airport
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Birdseye view of the Wichita Municipal Airport. A Douglas DC2 plane owned by TWA is in the foreground. The airport is located on South Oliver.
Keywords: Transportation, aviation, plane, aerials.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1968

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Municipal Airport and TWA Plane
Title/Object Name: Wichita Municipal Airport and TWA Plane
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Wichita Municipal Airport with a TWA Ford Trimotor Airplane in the foreground, located on South Oliver.
Keywords: Transportation, aviation, plane.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1963

Link to Image Titled: The Forum
Title/Object Name: The Forum
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 9.25 x 7.25 inches
Description: Interior of Forum arena at 231 South Water Street. Site of an unidentified equestrian competition. The banners flanking the stage represented the history of Wichita with the slogans, “Spirit of Wichita” and “Art, Music, Science, Commerce, Agriculture.”
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, public events, sports and recreation, horse show, American flags.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-89.4.1

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: 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: Dr. John R. Brinkley and Morton Levand
Title/Object Name: Dr. John R. Brinkley and Morton Levand
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Dr. John R. Brinkley and Morton Levand pose in the press room of the Wichita Beacon newspaper. Dr. Brinkley, famous for his goat gland transplants, was an unsuccessful Kansas gubernatorial candidate in 1930, 1932 and 1934. The Levand family owned and published the Beacon from 1928 to 1960.
Keywords: Wichita, people, politicians.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Morton Levand Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-04.1.15.1

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: 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: Ackerman Island
Title/Object Name: Ackerman Island
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Birdseye view looking northwest from the Broadview Hotel (101 North Waco). Site of the Ackerman Island removal project, which was funded by federal funds during the Great Depression. The island was removed and displaced as lines of workmen hauled soil from the island in wheelbarrows and dumped it as fill on the west bank of the river. The Civil Works Administration, one of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, paid the men about $12.00 a week for 30 hours of work [Wichita Eagle, 11/21/1933]. Ackerman Island had been the site of Wonderland Amusement Park and a baseball stadium. The bridges at center served the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The tall smokestack in the background was at the Kansas Gas and Electric Company plant. The Arkansas River winds northwesterly through the view.
Keywords: Government, public services, rivers, transportation, landscape, skyline, West Wichita, Delano neighborhood, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_S2-2.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Business College
Title/Object Name: Wichita Business College
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Elaborate entrance to Wichita Business College, 114-116 North Market Street. Classes were held in upper-story rooms.
Keywords: Wichita, education, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.17.1

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