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Link to Image Titled: United States Surveyors Surveying Sedgwick County
Title/Object Name: United States Surveyors Surveying Sedgwick County
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1867
Physical Details: 8.5 x 11 inches
Description: U.S. Surveyors surveying Sedgwick County, Kansas. Chief surveyor Samuel Smoot at right center, identified by a small x beneath his image.
Keywords: Wichita, government, people, surveyors, surveying, Samuel S. Smoot, Sedgwick County, tents, horses, cattle.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms91-3.10.5

Link to Image Titled: Texas Cattle Fording Arkansas River at Wichita, Kansas, July 1869
Title/Object Name: Texas Cattle Fording Arkansas River at Wichita, Kansas, July 1869
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1869
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Texas Cattle Fording Arkansas River at Wichita, Kansas, July 1869
Keywords: Wichita, rivers, people, livestock, cowboys, horses.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms91-3.10.3

Link to Image Titled: Wichita's Main Street in 1870, Looking North from Douglas Avenue
Title/Object Name: Wichita's Main Street in 1870, Looking North from Douglas Avenue
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1870
Physical Details: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Description: View of Main Street in Wichita, looking north from Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, people, transportation, business and industry, stores, covered wagons, wagons, horses.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms91-3.9.14.1

Link to Image Titled: First Church in Wichita
Title/Object Name: First Church in Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1873
Physical Details: 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Description: Wichita citizens posed in front of church building in Wichita, built around 1870 and used by the Protestant Episcopal Church, now St. John's Episcopal Church. The location was north of Third Street on east side of Main Street.
Keywords: Wichita, religion, people, churches, St. John's Episcopal Church, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-4.2.6.2

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: Nicholas Steffen and the Steffen Bakery Wagon
Title/Object Name: Nicholas Steffen and the Steffen Bakery Wagon
Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap Studio
Date Original: 1882
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Nicholas Steffen and the Steffen Bakery Wagon.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, Nicholas Steffen, wagon, horses, Steffen Bakery.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-4.3.11.1

Link to Image Titled: Marshall Murdock, founding editor of the Wichita Eagle, in his office
Title/Object Name: Marshall Murdock, founding editor of the Wichita Eagle, in his office
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
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms232.0.0.1

Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue looking west
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue looking west
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
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms232.0.0.2

Link to Image Titled: Franklin School
Title/Object Name: Franklin School
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
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms99-3.2.schools.1

Link to Image Titled: Flooded streets in downtown Wichita
Title/Object Name: Flooded streets in downtown Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1894
Physical Details: 3.5 x 3.5 inches
Description: View of a flood looking southwest from Sedgwick County courthouse showing Main Street in June 1894.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, transportation, rivers, floods, horses, buggies, Arkansas River.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-4.2.13.1

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