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Link to Image Titled: Western Lithograph and Office Supply Company
Title/Object Name: Western Lithograph and Office Supply Company
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View looking southwest across intersection of Topeka Avenue (left) and First Street (right). The building housed the Western Lithograph Company plus the Western Drug Store on the ground floor corner at Topeka and the Orpheum Garage at the corner of First and Lawrence (now Broadway).
Keywords: Business and industry, transportation, automobiles, street scenes, architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-111.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Continental Oil Company Filling Station and Car Wash
Title/Object Name: Continental Oil Company Filling Station and Car Wash
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Ted Milligan, Clyde Schimer and Dudley Dorr in uniforms in front of Continental Oil Company filling station at Murdock and Waco Streets; Schimer and Dorr were known as the "Gold Dust Twins"; station was built in 1930.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation, people, filling stations, gas stations, Continental Oil Company, Conoco, car wash, gasoline, Ted Milligan, Clyde Schimer, Dudley Dorr.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL1976

Link to Image Titled: Intersection of First Street and Lawrence Avenue
Title/Object Name: Intersection of First Street and Lawrence Avenue
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Looking northwest from intersection of First Street and Lawrence (now known as Broadway). Businesses visible include: White Castle Hamburgers, Union Bus Depot, Tostwich Cafe, Butts New & Used Cars, Edler School of Dancing. The automobile in the left foreground appears to have an "Air Capital" emblem mounted on the grille.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, transportation, restaurants.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_U21-2.1.1

Link to Image Titled: TWA Ford Trimotor
Title/Object Name: TWA Ford Trimotor
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: A Trans World Airlines Ford Trimotor Airplane carrying U.S. mail landing at Wichita Municipal Airport on South Oliver.
Keywords: Transportation, aviation, plane.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1961

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Municipal Airport and TWA Plane
Title/Object Name: Wichita Municipal Airport and TWA Plane
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Wichita Municipal Airport with a TWA Ford Trimotor Airplane in the foreground, located on South Oliver.
Keywords: Transportation, aviation, plane.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1963

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Municipal Airport
Title/Object Name: Wichita Municipal Airport
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Birdseye view of the Wichita Municipal Airport. A Douglas DC2 plane owned by TWA is in the foreground. The airport is located on South Oliver.
Keywords: Transportation, aviation, plane, aerials.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1968

Link to Image Titled: Municipal Airport, 3800 South Oliver
Title/Object Name: Municipal Airport, 3800 South Oliver
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Front view of hangar, Richfield Company truck refueling an airplane. Wichita built the airport in 1929 to insure the city's place in the new cross-continent mail and passenger routes. The city was well-positioned for air travel due to its central geographic location and a growing aircraft industry.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation, air capital, aircraft.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D10-6.1.3

Link to Image Titled: McKenzie Midget Auto
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Young boys grouped around a miniature automobile built by Leo L. McKenzie, who owned McKenzie Body Works, 117 West First Street. McKenzie specialized in building and retrofitting trucks to suit the owners’ needs. He also repaired damaged cars and remodeled some early models into pickup trucks. Businesses in the background include Golden Rule Oil Company on First Street and White Castle Hamburgers at intersection of Broadway and First.
Keywords: Street scenes, business and industry, people, children, African Americans, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.4

Link to Image Titled: Goodrich-Silvertown, Inc. Filling Station
Title/Object Name: Goodrich-Silvertown, Inc. Filling Station
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Looking southwest across First Street at the Goodrich-Silvertown filling station, 159 North St. Francis Avenue. Sign on truck indicates date of Grand Opening. Good example of Art Deco/Art Moderne commercial architecture. The Allis Hotel and the Union National Bank are partially seen in background.
Keywords: Business and industry, transportation, automobiles, trucks, gas pumps, gas station architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-110.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Ackerman Island
Title/Object Name: Ackerman Island
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Birdseye view looking northwest from the Broadview Hotel (101 North Waco). Site of the Ackerman Island removal project, which was funded by federal funds during the Great Depression. The island was removed and displaced as lines of workmen hauled soil from the island in wheelbarrows and dumped it as fill on the west bank of the river. The Civil Works Administration, one of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, paid the men about $12.00 a week for 30 hours of work [Wichita Eagle, 11/21/1933]. Ackerman Island had been the site of Wonderland Amusement Park and a baseball stadium. The bridges at center served the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The tall smokestack in the background was at the Kansas Gas and Electric Company plant. The Arkansas River winds northwesterly through the view.
Keywords: Government, public services, rivers, transportation, landscape, skyline, West Wichita, Delano neighborhood, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_S2-2.1.1

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