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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_E3-1.1.1

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_N1-13.3.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1887

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: The Wichita and Suburban Street Railway cars in front of the Stock Yards Hotel. It was located at 18th and Emporia.

Keywords: Transportation, business and industry.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl1243

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1887

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Thomas Fitch Residence, 905 Spaulding. Known as the Riverside Cottage, the architects were Proudfoot and Bird. Fitch's residence was the first to be wired for electric lights.

Keywords: Residences.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl1821

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D2NW-12.1.4

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_1055.N.Lawrence-1

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_1110.Bitting-1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1887

Physical Details: 7.5 x 8.75 inches

Description: Students at original Franklin School, designed by architects Proudfoot and Bird. It was located in the 200 block of South Elizabeth Street.

Keywords: Wichita, education, people, Franklin School, school children, schools, students, architecture.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ms99-3.2.schools.1

Creator: Baldwin and Son

Date Original: 1887

Physical Details: 7.5 x 10 inches

Description: Marshall Murdock, editor of the Wichita Eagle, in his office. Photograph taken by flashlight. Murdock founded the newspaper in 1872.

Keywords: Wichita, people, business and industry, Marshall Murdock, portraits, interiors.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Marcellus M. Murdock Papers

Repository: Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_tms232.0.0.1

Creator: Baldwin and Son

Date Original: 1887

Physical Details: 9 x 14 inches

Description: Downtown Wichita view showing Douglas Avenue. Photograph was taken June 1, 1887, probably from nearly completed Carey Hotel (Eaton Hotel), southwest corner of Douglas Avenue and St. Francis Street. In first block west of Carey Hotel, Richland building at 405 East Douglas Avenue is under construction.

Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, transportation, construction, trolleys, wagons, buggies.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Marcellus M. Murdock Papers

Repository: Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_tms232.0.0.2

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