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Link to Image Titled: Wichita Volunteer Firefighters
Title/Object Name: Wichita Volunteer Firefighters
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Members of the Deluge Company participating in a firefighters’ tournament in Kansas City, Missouri. They are preparing to race with a hose reel, which was the principal piece of equipment of the time. It was pulled by as many as eighteen men with two men handling the guide shafts. The Deluge Company was based in the Number 1 Hose House, 220 North Market.
Keywords: Organizations, clubs and groups; public events; public services; Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_N1-13.3.1

Link to Image Titled: Detroit Dining Parlor
Title/Object Name: Detroit Dining Parlor
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 4.25 x 3 inches
Description: Exterior view of a restaurant owned by Mrs. M. J. Blackburn; location 223 East Douglas. Note elaborate electric light fixture mounted above entrance.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, employment, occupation, people, fashion, café, chef, cook, waiter, employees.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E3-1.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Watch Factory
Title/Object Name: Wichita Watch Factory
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.5 inches
Description: A distant view of the Watch Factory located near Douglas and Meridian. Unidentified tents in the foreground. Illustrates the undeveloped prairie just west of the Arkansas River from the center of Wichita.
Keywords: Business and industry, landscape.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NW-12.1.4

Link to Image Titled: Home of William G. Hacker
Title/Object Name: Home of William G. Hacker
Creator: Baldwin
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 3.5 x 3 inches
Description: Residence at 1055 North Lawrence (now Broadway) owned by W. G. Hacker at the time of the photo. Family members and a housekeeper are posed throughout the various porches. Note the lawn sprinkler. By 1896 it had become the home of Levi S. Naftzger, prominent local banker.
Keywords: Architecture, Victorian, houses, people, African Americans, horse-drawn buggy, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_1055.N.Lawrence-1

Link to Image Titled: Home of James Cairns
Title/Object Name: Home of James Cairns
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 3.75 x 3 inches
Description: Residence at 1110 Bitting, identified as the home of James Carnes, City Marshall. Mrs. Cairns and her children are posed in front of the house.
Keywords: People, architecture, Riverside, baby carriage, dogs, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_1110.Bitting-1

Link to Image Titled: West Douglas Street Scene
Title/Object Name: West Douglas Street Scene
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 7 x 9 inches
Description: Looking south at two businesses, southwest corner of Douglas and Sycamore. Signs indicate J. L. Moore & Son, Groceries & Meat Market and Trimble Bros & Threlkeld's Hardware. Horse-drawn wagons are decked with American flags as if for a parade.
Keywords: Wichita, agriculture, business and industry, people, public events, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2SW-10.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Wheat field
Title/Object Name: Wheat field
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1887
Physical Details: 3 x 5 inches
Description: Threshing crew in a wheat field west of Wichita. Farm equipment includes a steam tractor, a threshing machine, and wagons, one with a canvas tent mounted on it.
Keywords: Wichita, agriculture, people, farming, machinery, horses, harvest.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E4-1.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Mary E. Klentz Millinery Shop
Title/Object Name: Mary E. Klentz Millinery Shop
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1888
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Exterior view of millinery shop owned by Mrs. Mary E. Klentz at 153 North Main Street. The woman second from left may be Mrs. Klentz.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people, street scenes, hats, fashion, women, storefronts.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E3-16.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Home of A. A. Hyde
Title/Object Name: Home of A. A. Hyde
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1888
Physical Details: 3.75 x 2.75 inches
Description: Home of A. A. Hyde, founder of the Mentholatum Company. The family resided at this location from 1886-1937. Location, 3728 East Second Street in the College Hill neighborhood. Four Hyde children and a pet dog on the lawn.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, residences, houses, architecture, Queen Anne, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_3728.E.Second-1

Link to Image Titled: Home of James O. and Bessie Davidson
Title/Object Name: Home of James O. and Bessie Davidson
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1888
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.75 inches
Description: Home built in 1888 by J. O. Davidson. The address for the residence at that time was simply “Riverside,” a fashionable suburb laid out by Davidson himself. By 1912 the name of the street had become River Boulevard. The structure is often remembered as “Kirby Castle” (1201 West River Boulevard) after the family who bought it in 1932.
Keywords: Residences, homes, houses, Richardsonian Romanesque, architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_1201.W.RiverBlvd-2

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