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Link to Image Titled: Jones Six Billboard
Title/Object Name: Jones Six Billboard
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1914
Physical Details: 2.25 x 4 inches
Description: Billboard by Western Sign Works for Wichita-produced Jones Six car. Jones Motor Car Company began advertising the cars in late 1914 and began their manufacture in early 1915.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, 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.4

Link to Image Titled: Grocery store interior
Title/Object Name: Grocery store interior
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1914
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Spurgeon Russell and John R. McCormick pose in grocery store where they worked.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people, grocery stores, store interiors, Spurgeon Russell, John R. McCormick.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-4.2.5.2

Link to Image Titled: Sign on West Douglas Avenue
Title/Object Name: Sign on West Douglas Avenue
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 4 x 2.5 inches
Description: View of painted sign created by Wichita company Western Sign Works to advertise Zu Zu Ginger Snaps. Men pose on scaffolding in front of sign on unknown West Douglas Avenue building. Sign at lower right offers West Douglas lots for sale by J. R. Johnston who operated a business at 522 West Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people, buildings.
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.6

Link to Image Titled: Cudahy Packing Company
Title/Object Name: Cudahy Packing Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 3.25 x 2.5 inches
Description: Employees posed inside meat processing plant. Group includes one African American man and possibly one Hispanic man.
Keywords: Business and industry, men, labor, employment, occupation, work clothing, people, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E10-13.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Cudahy Packing Company
Title/Object Name: Cudahy Packing Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 3.25 x 2.5 inches
Description: Interior of meat processing plant; employees working at making sausages.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, labor, employment, occupation, work clothing, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E10-13.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Oil Storage Tank
Title/Object Name: Oil Storage Tank
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: E. C. Baker moving company transporting Standard Oil Company tank on horse-drawn wagon. Location, in front of Jap-A-Jap Salve and Face Crème Manufacturing Company, 709 East Murdock. Standard Oil was located at 700 North Santa Fe.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, street scene, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E6-6.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Union Station
Title/Object Name: Wichita Union Station
Creator: Arthur E. Spalton
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Railroad station built on east Douglas in 1914 to replace a decrepit Santa Fe Depot. Located at the site of elevated tracks that had been erected over Douglas in 1911. It housed a Fred Harvey restaurant and an imposing waiting room.
Keywords: Business and industry, public services, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, architecture, Beaux Arts.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D10-1.2.4

Link to Image Titled: Telephone Office
Title/Object Name: Telephone Office
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Interior of telephone office showing a woman seated at a switchboard console.
Keywords: Wichita, Business and industry, public services, people, employment.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-80.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Douglas Street Scene
Title/Object Name: Douglas Street Scene
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1915
Physical Details: 4 x 2.5 inches
Description: Looking toward north side of street, businesses include Livingston Photographic Studio at 110 East Douglas Avenue. Owned by Tipney Livingston.
Keywords: Business and industry, photographers, street scene, transportation, horse-drawn carriage, automobiles, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_U2-1.1.6

Link to Image Titled: Minnie Ems
Title/Object Name: Minnie Ems
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1916
Physical Details: 2.25 x 3 inches
Description: No evidence of women commercial photographers exists in these collections; however, this image of Miss Minnie Ems with her camera verifies that women, too, were interested in photography for personal or artistic reasons. Little biographical information is known about Ems. The 1916 city directory describes her as a student at Wichita Business College. This education led her to a life-long career as Office Manager and Treasurer of Price Auto Service. She worked there from 1924-1974.
Keywords: Business and industry, education, people, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_Ems,Minnie

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