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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D2SW-10.1.1

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_E4-1.1.1

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_3728.E.Second-1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1888

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Residence of Mark J. Oliver, located at 1105 North Lawrence. He was a capitalist and a wholesale and lumber dealer.

Keywords: Residences, people, children, porch.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl534

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_E3-16.1.2

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1888

Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches

Description: Northwest corner of Main and Douglas showing the Citizens Bank corner.

Keywords: Street scenes, people, horses, buggy, commercial buildings.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl360

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:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_1201.W.RiverBlvd-2

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1888

Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.75 inches

Description: Interior of J. O. Davidson home on West River Boulevard. View of entry with staircase.

Keywords: Residences, homes, domestic scenes, furniture, Riverside, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_1201.W.RiverBlvd-3

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1888

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Franklin School, located at 214 South Elizabeth. It was named for Benjamin Franklin.

Keywords: Education, children.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl1756

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1888

Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches

Description: Built on the far west side of Wichita near Douglas and Meridian. The building was never completed due to the end of the economic boom of the 1880s. The business failed, no watches were ever manufactured, building was later abandoned

Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, manufacturing, architecture.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Photographs

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D2NW-12.1.2

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