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Link to Image Titled: Main Street, mid-1870s
Title/Object Name: Main Street, mid-1870s
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1875
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Looking northwest at first block of north Main Street. Business signs include Black & Nixon Grocery; C. A. Bayley Company, Hardware; and W. C. Woodman, Groceries.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, transportation, horses, wagons, false front, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_U3-1.2.1


Link to Image Titled: Home of H. W. Dunning
Title/Object Name: Home of H. W. Dunning
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1875
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.75 inches
Description: View looking northwest at early house in Wichita. Identified as residence of H. W. Dunning at 535 North Lawrence (now Broadway). The family is gathered in the front yard.
Keywords: Architecture, homes, people, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_535.N.Lawrence-1


Link to Image Titled: Wichita Elevator
Title/Object Name: Wichita Elevator
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1875
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Farmers bringing wheat to be milled at the Wichita Elevator, Russell & Furlong, Proprietors. Located at the corner of First and Fifth (now know as Santa Fe) Streets.
Keywords: Wichita, agriculture, business and industry, public events, street scenes, transportation, horses, windmill, farming.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-41.1.1


Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue looking west
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue looking west
Creator: Nereus Baldwin
Date Original: 1876
Physical Details: 6 x 8.5 inches
Description: View of East Douglas Avenue looking west from newly erected Imboden mill in 700 block east. Arkansas River defined by trees in distance.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, residences, downtown, lumber yard, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-4.3.14.1


Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue looking west from Santa Fe Tracks
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue looking west from Santa Fe Tracks
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1876
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Douglas Avenue looking west from the Santa Fe railroad tracks.
Keywords: Street scenes, people, horses, wagons, commercial buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl353


Link to Image Titled: First Santa Fe Depot
Title/Object Name: First Santa Fe Depot
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1877
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Birds' eye view of original Santa Fe Depot showing boxcars on the tracks
Keywords: Wichita, transportation, business and industry, trains, railroads.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL2056


Link to Image Titled: German Methodist Church (Calvary United Methodist Church)
Title/Object Name: German Methodist Church (Calvary United Methodist Church)
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1878
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Birds' eye view looking west with Fourth Street (St. Francis) in foreground; shows German Methodist church and W. L. Johnson Feed Stables; church is now Calvary United Methodist
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, religion, business and industry, agriculture, churches, stables.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL2058


Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue Street Scene
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue Street Scene
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1878
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Douglas Avenue, looking west at north side of street. Land Office in foreground is Healy and Niederlander, Real Estate Company, at the corner of Emporia and Douglas. Other business signs visible include Lipperts (?) and the Cincinnati Bakery.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people, street scenes, false front, buildings, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_U2-2.1.8


Link to Image Titled: Home of Robert E. Lawrence
Title/Object Name: Home of Robert E. Lawrence
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1878
Physical Details: 2.5 x 2.75 inches
Description: Members of the Robert Lawrence family gathered in front of their residence at 415 South Seneca Street. Early home in the Delano neighborhood built in about 1871. Identified as the first residence of R. E. Lawrence and was replaced later by a grand limestone home.
Keywords: People, architecture, houses, baby carriage, West Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_415.S.Seneca-1


Link to Image Titled: Home of Charles R. Miler
Title/Object Name: Home of Charles R. Miller
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1878
Physical Details: 2.25 x 4 inches
Description: Residence at 509 South Lawrence (Broadway) owned by C. R. Miller. The home, with Gothic Revival styling and Stick and Shingle details was designed by architects Will Sternberg and the yet unknown, Stanford White. It was built in the late 1870s and demolished in 1923 to make way for a filling station.
Keywords: Architecture, Victorian, houses, people, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_509.S.Lawrence-1


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