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Link to Image Titled: Wichita Water Works
Title/Object Name: Wichita Water Works
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1939
Physical Details: 7 x 9.5 inches
Description: View looking northwest toward Wichita Water Works building. Located on Sim Park Drive just east of Seneca Street, building was constructed in 1938 using Public Works Administration funds.
Keywords: Wichita, public services, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Eagle Building
Title/Object Name: Eagle Building
Creator: Paul Bulla
Date Original: 1939
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of Eagle Building at Market and William Streets; Police Station and old City Hall in background.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, government, public services, Eagle building, City Hall, police station.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Homer T. Harden Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_HTH307

Link to Image Titled: Police Department
Title/Object Name: Police Department
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1940
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View looking southwest toward Police Department, 109 East William, located between F. J. Busch's Shoe Shop and City Hall. Built in 1908 as Wichita's central fire station, it was remodeled for the police department in 1934 using federal emergency relief funds. Building was razed in the late 1970s.
Keywords: Wichita, public services, street scenes, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Fire Department Drill Tower
Title/Object Name: Wichita Fire Department Drill Tower
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1948
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Firemen practice with Peter Pirsch aerial ladder truck at Wichita Fire Department's drill tower.
Keywords: Wichita, public services, people, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-04.2.12.1

Link to Image Titled: Police Department
Title/Object Name: Police Department
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1950
Physical Details: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Description: Wichita police officers pose in front of headquarters at 115 East William Street. Klondike Cafe and Sandra Theater to left of headquarters building.
Keywords: Wichita, public services, buildings, street scenes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-04.3.5.1

Link to Image Titled: Planeview and McConnell Air Force Base
Title/Object Name: Planeview and McConnell Air Force Base
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1952
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Planeview community (lower right) was built under federal guidelines in 1943 to provide housing for defense workers arriving to find employment in the aircraft companies. Hilltop Manor and Beechwood were similar developments. In 1951, adjacent land belonging to the Municipal Airport was converted into an Air Force Base. The "tent city" (above left) provided early, temporary housing for Air Force personnel.
Keywords: Wichita, aerials, aviation, military, public services, residences, houses, World War II, National Housing Agency.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-5.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Elmer Million and Junior Traffic Patrol
Title/Object Name: Elmer Million and Junior Traffic Patrol
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1953
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Wichita Police Traffic Sergeant Elmer Million and Junior Traffic Patrol at College Hill Elementary School, 201 North Clifton. Million organized junior traffic patrol guards at Wichita elementary schools. Boys in front row wearing Sergeant helmets.
Keywords: Wichita, education, public services.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.4.1

Link to Image Titled: World War II Housing for Defense Workers
Title/Object Name: World War II Housing for Defense Workers
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1954
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: View of housing units in either Planeview or Beechwood, two of three developments built by the Federal Public Housing Authority during World War II. The first, Hilltop Manor, was constructed in 1941. Planeview and Beechwood, plus a Trailer Park, were built by 1943 as Wichita struggled to provide adequate and wholesome homes for the thousands of workers arriving in the city to work in the aircraft industry. The government designed these ‘minimal houses’ as four-rooms-with-bath units in structures for single- or multiple-families.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, military, public services, residences, street scenes, WW II, apartments.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_R2-PlaneviewBeechwood

Link to Image Titled: Municipal Airport, 6701 West Harry
Title/Object Name: Municipal Airport, 6701 West Harry
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1960
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Looking south at terminal building and air traffic control tower. Listed in the 1961 City Directory with this note: "...constructed at a cost of $13-million and covering 2,240 acres. Preparations are under way to equip the Municipal Airport for the jet age." The name was changed to Mid-Continent Airport in about 1974.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, public services, transportation, automobiles, pickup trucks.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D10-6.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Explosion at Boeing Plant II
Title/Object Name: Explosion at Boeing Plant II
Creator: Boeing
Date Original: 1965
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Law enforcement officers and investigators look over damage caused by natural gas explosion at Boeing Plant II. Blast was in electrical cable manhole in parking lot between Oliver Street and plant. One picket for striking members of International Association of Machinists received abrasions from flying debris. Photograph taken September 21, 1965.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, public services, government, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Boeing-Stearman Corporate Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms99-04.2.27.1

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