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Link to Image Titled: Wichita Municipal Airport
Title/Object Name: Wichita Municipal Airport
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: 1955
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Airport Cabs line up in front of terminal building at Wichita Municipal Airport. Built in 1954, facility located on the southwest side of Wichita was renamed Wichita Mid-Continent Airport in 1973.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, airports, buildings, transportation
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.34.4.3

Link to Image Titled: Kansas Gas and Electric Company
Title/Object Name: Kansas Gas and Electric Company
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1955
Physical Details: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Description: View looking northwest toward Kansas Gas and Electric Company building at East 1st and North Market streets. Building was completed in 1954.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, buildings
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.34.5.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Skyline
Title/Object Name: Wichita Skyline
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1955
Physical Details: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Description: View looking west toward construction on telephone exchange building at 154 North Broadway Street. Directly across street is Lawrence Building, 149 North Broadway, adjacent to taller Butts Building at southwest corner of 1st and Broadway streets. In background Union National Center is under construction.
Keywords: Wichita, buildings, business and industry
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.34.5.2

Link to Image Titled: Market Street
Title/Object Name: Market Street
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1955
Physical Details: 8.5 x 6.5 inches
Description: View of 100 block of South Market Street. Andy Mynear Painting and Decorating truck parked in front of Resnick Davis Diamond Shop, 112 South Market. Wheeler Kelly Hagny building next to Innes Store at southeast corner of Market and William streets.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, buildings
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.34.5.3

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Chamber of Commerce Offices
Title/Object Name: Wichita Chamber of Commerce Offices
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1955
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce offices. The Chamber of Commerce was located in the Miller Theater building at 121 North Broadway.
Keywords: Wichita, 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_ms2002-12.68.47.7

Link to Image Titled: Snowman
Title/Object Name: Snowman
Creator: Wichita Beacon
Date Original: 1955
Physical Details: 2.5 x 2.5 inches
Description: Two Wichita boys (identified, on file) posed with their distinguished-looking snowman. Published in the Wichita Beacon with the caption, “Labor of Love.”
Keywords: Sports and recreation, people, children, teenagers, winter.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_L4-6.1.1

Link to Image Titled: University of Wichita Campus
Title/Object Name: University of Wichita Campus
Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap Studio
Date Original: Circa 1955
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view looking south over University of Wichita, now Wichita State University. Early 1950s campus building phase in evidence: Grace Wilkie Hall, Neff Hall, Engineering Building and Brennan Hall were all constructed after 1950. Fairmount Park, Yale Heights Addition, Gardner Plaza apartments and MacDonald Golf Course visible south of campus.
Keywords: Wichita, aerials, education, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: University Archives
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ua.wsu.campus_aerial.4

Link to Image Titled: B-47 Stratojets at Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita Division
Title/Object Name: B-47 Stratojets at Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita Division
Creator: Boeing Airplane Company
Date Original: 1956
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Four different B-47 Stratojet models at Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita Division, used by the United States Air Force.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, military, airplanes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.23.1

Link to Image Titled: Cooper's
Title/Object Name: Cooper's
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1956
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: View looking south at Cooper's, 2601 East Douglas, at southwest corner of Douglas and South Green Street. Cooper's sold household appliances, housewares, toys and gifts. Built in 1931, building originally housed the Roosevelt Food Market.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Negative
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.1.0.8

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

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