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Link to Image Titled: Riverside Boat Company
Title/Object Name: Riverside Boat Company
Creator: Homer T. Harden
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Looking east across the Little Arkansas River at the Riverside Boathouse (known earlier as Israel's Boathouse and Murdock Avenue Boathouse). Founded near the intersection of Murdock and Waco, in the late 1890s, the boat rental business and its original small structure, grew in size and commercial enterprise for more than 50 years. It was demolished during the "urban renewal" efforts of the 1960s.
Keywords: Wichita, bridges, business and industry, parks, people, public events, rivers, sports and recreation, transportation, canoes, boating, swimming.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_M1-2.3.4

Link to Image Titled: Standard Oil Company Filling Station
Title/Object Name: Standard Oil Company Filling Station
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 6 x 4 inches
Description: Unidentified Standard Oil Company service station with attendants ready to assist the motoring public.
Keywords: Business and industry, gas stations, gas pumps, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E3-61.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Students of the American Indian Institute
Title/Object Name: Students of the American Indian Institute
Creator: Deluxe Studios, Wichita
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Students pose in front of dormitory at American Indian Institute, a high school for Native American boys at 3500 East 21st Street. Founded by Henry Roe Cloud in 1915, the Roe Indian Institute became the American Indian Institute in 1920 and operated until 1939.
Keywords: Wichita, education, Native Americans, American Indian Institute, Roe Indian Institute, Henry Roe Cloud.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms99-3.1.aii.1

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

Link to Image Titled: Steel Trusses for Roswell, New Mexico
Title/Object Name: Steel Trusses for Roswell, New Mexico
Creator: Whittier
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Steel trusses for Roswell, New Mexico, manufactured by Western Iron & Foundry Company. View is looking southeast from railroad tracks toward Keen Kutter building, International Harvester Company and Winfield Wholesale Grocery Company. Photograph taken June 22, 1928.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.48.3

Link to Image Titled: May Day Festival
Title/Object Name: May Day Festival
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 9.5 x 8.75 inches
Description: Aerial view over campus of Wichita High School East and Roosevelt Intermediate School. A large crowd of spectators surrounds circular formations of performers. Looking northwest toward Douglas Avenue; Grove Street at right.
Keywords: Education, entertainment, public events, rivers, automobiles, street scenes, residences, houses, business and industry, landscape, College Hill, neighborhood, East High, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-35.1.2

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: Swallow Airplane Factory and Wichita Park Cemetery
Title/Object Name: Swallow Airplane Factory and Wichita Park Cemetery
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 4.75 x 7 inches
Description: Aerial view looking northeast toward the Swallow airplane factory and Wichita Park cemetery located on 2700 block of North Hillside.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, airplanes, biplanes, cemeteries.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.67.10.1

Link to Image Titled: Zoo in Central Riverside Park
Title/Object Name: Zoo in Central Riverside Park
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 5.75 x 9.25 inches
Description: View of zoo in Central Riverside Park. Built in 1921 and remodeled in 1927, structure was scheduled to be torn down in 1973, the same year as new Sedgwick County Zoo opened.
Keywords: Wichita, parks.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.53.1

Link to Image Titled: Santa Claus and Stearman Airplane
Title/Object Name: Santa Claus and Stearman Airplane
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 9.75 x 7.5 inches
Description: Santa Claus climbing into a Stearman airplane at hangar at Wichita Municipal Airport in city's southeast section.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, airports, airplanes, Santa Claus.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.67.10.4

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