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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

Link to Image Titled: Aerial View of Wichita Municipal Airport
Title/Object Name: Aerial View of Wichita Municipal Airport
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view of Wichita Municipal Airport and parking areas, at 3800 South Oliver.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, transportation, aerials, airports, airplanes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL2057

Link to Image Titled: The Forum
Title/Object Name: The Forum
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1934
Physical Details: 9.25 x 7.25 inches
Description: Interior of exposition hall in the Forum complex, 231 South Water Street. Unidentified auto display featuring Buick automobiles and GMC trucks, including a long-distance passenger bus.
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, public events, transportation, cars.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-89.5.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Police Department
Title/Object Name: Wichita Police Department
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1934
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Looking south at Central Police Station, 109 East William Street. This building was the object of emergency relief funds and labor during the New Deal era of the Great Depression. In 1933 Wichita received funds to convert the structure, which had been the Central Fire Station, into a “modern police station.” The building was remodeled and received a new Art Deco architectural style (compare to item wschm­_­N1-6.1.1 in this database). The Wichita City Hall, known as the City Building, is at right.
Keywords: Government, public services, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, policemen, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_N2-1.8.1

Link to Image Titled: Derby Oil Refinery
Title/Object Name: Derby Oil Refinery
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Aerial view over northeast Wichita. Looking north from 21st Street. Refinery, 1102 East 21st Street. in foreground. Roundhouse and shops of Missouri Pacific Railroad in background, 100 East 25th Street.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-33.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Innes Wholesale Furniture Company
Title/Object Name: Innes Wholesale Furniture Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.75 inches
Description: Looking southwest at furniture company, 701-723 East First Street.
Keywords: Business and industry, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, railroad crossing signals, architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-113.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Beech Aircraft
Title/Object Name: Beech Aircraft
Creator: Monty Barnes
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Description: Walter H. Beech looks on as shipping container holding Beech airplane is loaded onto boxcar. Container is addressed to Roger-Jenkins & Company of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.3

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