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Link to Image Titled: Horses Pulling Bus from Snow
Title/Object Name: Horses Pulling Bus from Snow
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Horses pulling a bus out of the snow. The location is between Estelle and Volutsia on East 13th street.
Keywords: Transportation, people, fashion.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1251


Link to Image Titled: Mr. Warhurst and his Yellow Cab
Title/Object Name: Mr. Warhurst and his Yellow Cab
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Mr. Warhust standing beside his Yellow Cab at 718 East Douglas.
Keywords: Transportation, people, uniforms, truck.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl539


Link to Image Titled: Kansas Theater
Title/Object Name: Kansas Theater
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Kansas Theater, located at 221 East Douglas. The entrance to Dockum Drug Company can be seen next door.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, fashion, bicycle.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1432


Link to Image Titled: Ritchie Construction Company
Title/Object Name: Ritchie Construction Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Wagon, teams, and steam-operated machines, including a “steam shovel,” owned by Ritchie Construction Company excavating a site at Second Street and Crestway in the College Hill neighborhood.
Keywords: Business and industry, development, residences, people, occupation, employment, street scenes, transportation, landscape, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E10-12.1.1


Link to Image Titled: Wichita Flour Mills
Title/Object Name: Wichita Flour Mills
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1922
Physical Details: 9.75 x 8 inches
Description: Wichita Flour Mills' employee filling Kansas Expansion Flour sacks. The mill was located at 17th street and Santa Fe avenue. Top portion of image is cropped. Calendar in background shows January 1922.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, agriculture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.47.5


Link to Image Titled: Billboards in Downtown Wichita
Title/Object Name: Billboards in Downtown Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 7 inches
Description: Billboards at southwest corner of William and Lawrence (Broadway) streets, on site where McClellan Hotel now stands. Created by Wichita company Western Sign Works, billboards advertise Comley Lumber, Wichita Automobile and Eberhardt-Hays Music companies.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, advertisements.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.66.9a.3


Link to Image Titled: Camping Scene
Title/Object Name: Camping Scene
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 3.75 x 3 inches
Description: Unidentified group of men and women with tent and camping gear. Location unknown.
Keywords: Sports and recreation, transportation, people, Wichita, automobile.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H6-26.1.1


Link to Image Titled: Walter H. Beech and Laird Swallow
Title/Object Name: Walter H. Beech and Laird Swallow
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Walter H. Beech piloting three-place open cockpit Laird Swallow biplane in Wichita. Men in front places not identified. Beech's name is painted on plane marking his place. Laird Swallow airplanes were built in Wichita from 1919 to 1923.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, people, airplanes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.9


Link to Image Titled: 200 Block East Douglas
Title/Object Name: 200 Block East Douglas
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: 200 Block East Douglas looking west. Three major buildings are the J. O. Adams Music Company located in the Michigan Building, the Fourth National Bank, and the Bitting Building.
Keywords: Street scenes, transportaion, automobiles, streetcars, commercial buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl351


Link to Image Titled: Wichita High School
Title/Object Name: Wichita High School
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1923
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9 inches
Description: Aerial view looking northwest toward Wichita High School during its construction in 1923. Building with elaborate entry at lower left housed gymnasium until 2003 when it will be remodeled as a science facility. A new gym will open in 2004.
Keywords: Wichita, education, aerials, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-04.3.9.2


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