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Link to Image Titled: Dallas Spirit Airplane
Title/Object Name: Dallas Spirit Airplane
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Refueling the Swallow Airplane Company "Dallas Spirit" Monoplane. This plane was lost at sea during the Dole Race. The Swallow Airplane Company was located at 2401 North Hillside.
Keywords: Aviation, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl579

Link to Image Titled: Spalton Photographic Studio
Title/Object Name: Spalton Photographic Studio
Creator: Arthur E. Spalton
Date Original: Circa 1927
Physical Details: 9.25 x 7.25 inches
Description: Mrs. Jennie B. Spalton seated at a roll top desk in the Spalton Studio. Examples of her husband’s photographs are displayed on the wall and desktop.
Keywords: Business and industry, photography, interiors, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_SpaltonStudio

Link to Image Titled: American Legion Banquet
Title/Object Name: American Legion Banquet
Creator: Homer T. Harden
Date Original: Circa 1927
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.5 inches
Description: Banquet in honor of B. H. Neely, Commander of Arthur Gossett Post Number 273, and delegate to the Paris Convention.
Keywords: People, organizations, clubs, and groups, African American, American flags, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H6-20.1.1

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Title/Object Name: "Woolaroc" and Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Travel Air Model 5000 flown nonstop from San Francisco to Honolulu by Arthur C. Goebel, fifth from right, to win Dole Race. Designers of airplane, Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, are second and third from left. Others, from left, are Howard Baccus, William Hauselman, "Pinky" Grimes, Ted Cochran, Ralph Morton, Harold Brooks, Horace Weihmiller and Clarence Clark.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.17

Link to Image Titled: Cessna Aircraft Company
Title/Object Name: Cessna Aircraft Company
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Seventeen men stand on wing of prototype model of Cessna cabin monoplane. Stunt was to demonstrate strength of airplane without wing struts. Photograph taken August 1927.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, people, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Dwane Wallace Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-18.21.7.1

Link to Image Titled: Midian Shrine Temple
Title/Object Name: Midian Shrine Temple
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: View of newly remodeled building at 115 North Topeka which housed the Midian Shrine Temple from 1927 to 1971. Wichita architect S. S. Voigt designed new interior and exterior for former Elks Club building. Contractors -- Mahaney Roofing, Fortney Tile & Mantle and Roy Warner Floor Laying -- and architect posted their signs at the entrance.
Keywords: Wichita; organizations, clubs and groups; buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.31.1

Link to Image Titled: Downtown Industrial Area
Title/Object Name: Downtown Industrial Area
Creator: Barnes Aerial Surveys
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view of downtown industrial area. 2nd street runs along lower portion of image; Santa Fe (left) and Moore, Mead and Rock Island avenues (right) parallel railroad tracks. Coleman factory and lighted baseball field at lower left; Winfield Wholesale Grocery, Western Iron and Foundry at center; and International Harvester Company at upper right. View is looking northeast.
Keywords: Wichita, aerials, business and industry, buildings, sports and recreation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.48.4

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air Factory
Title/Object Name: Travel Air Factory
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of Travel Air factory on southeast corner of Central Avenue and Webb Road. Employee works on partially completed fuselage of Travel Air airplane.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.33

Link to Image Titled: May Day Festival
Title/Object Name: May Day Festival
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 9.5 x 8.75 inches
Description: Aerial view over campus of Wichita High School East and Roosevelt Intermediate School. A large crowd of spectators surrounds circular formations of performers. Looking northwest toward Douglas Avenue; Grove Street at right.
Keywords: Education, entertainment, public events, rivers, automobiles, street scenes, residences, houses, business and industry, landscape, College Hill, neighborhood, East High, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-35.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Steel Trusses for Roswell, New Mexico
Title/Object Name: Steel Trusses for Roswell, New Mexico
Creator: Whittier
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Steel trusses for Roswell, New Mexico, manufactured by Western Iron & Foundry Company. View is looking southeast from railroad tracks toward Keen Kutter building, International Harvester Company and Winfield Wholesale Grocery Company. Photograph taken June 22, 1928.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.48.3

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