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Link to Image Titled: McKenzie Midget Auto
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 3.75 x 3 inches
Description: Leo L. McKenzie posed with one of the miniature automobiles that he built at his business, McKenzie Body Works, 117 West First Street. This particular little car was intended to be a contest prize, others were sold (see also item wschm_T3-34.1.10).
Keywords: Business and industry, children, people, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.11

Link to Image Titled: McKenzie Midget Auto
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Donaldson Brothers Studio
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 3.75 x 2.25 inches
Description: Unidentified boy driving a miniature automobile built by McKenzie Body Works. Proprietor Leo L. McKenzie built a series of these small cars. They were fully motorized, not pedal cars.
Keywords: Business and industry, children, people, residences, street scenes, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.12

Link to Image Titled: Bathing Beauty Contest
Title/Object Name: Bathing Beauty Contest
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Beauty contest sponsored by the Wichita Eagle.
Keywords: Wichita; business and industry; organizations, clubs and groups; public events; sports and recreation; clothing; fashion; swim suits; bathing costumes; hair styles.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Photographs
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_L5-1.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Frank and Mabel Sweney
Title/Object Name: Frank and Mabel Sweney
Creator: Frank A. Wesely
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 9.5 x 6.75 inches
Description: Studio portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Sweney, owners of Sweney Bakery at 1011 West Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, West Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_Sweney,Frank&Mabel

Link to Image Titled: Star Touring Car
Title/Object Name: Star Touring Car
Creator: F. A. Wesely
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 3.75 x 3 inches
Description: Man and woman posed with a Star automobile. Location, Carleton School, 428 South Lawrence Avenue. Note the photographer’s shadow discreetly positioned in the foreground.
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, education, people, street scenes, fashion, photography, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-1.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Coleman Company Women’s Basketball Team
Title/Object Name: Coleman Company Women’s Basketball Team
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Members of Coleman Company women’s basketball team.
Keywords: Business and industry; sports and recreation; uniform; sportswear; fashion; organizations, clubs and groups; people; Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H11-38.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Maiden Wichita
Title/Object Name: Maiden Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1925
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of "Maiden Wichita," first airplane produced by Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Prototype for Travel Air Model 4000 was powered by Wright J4 radial engine.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.37

Link to Image Titled: Gage Brewer “Hawaiian Entertainers”
Title/Object Name: Gage Brewer “Hawaiian Entertainers”
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Group leader Gage Brewer (seated) in the early years of his career as a musician, songwriter, and dance orchestra leader. His group began performing on radio in Wichita, then traveled in and out of the U.S., and ultimately Brewer established the Shadowlands Dance Club in Wichita in 1937.
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, public events, guitars, banjos.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H5-36.3.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita High School East
Title/Object Name: Wichita High School East
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1925
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Aerial view over campus of Wichita High School and Roosevelt Intermediate School. Looking southwest toward Lincoln Street; Douglas Avenue in foreground intersects with Grove Street at lower left. The complex of the high school included the main building, the gymnasium, and the shops. The new school boasted an auditorium with seating for 2200, a laundry, an ice plant, an office vault, a greenhouse, and a heating plant [A History of Wichita Public School Buildings, 1978, p 179]. The curve of trees at right indicates the original bed of Chisholm Creek which was straightened into the canal that bisects the view diagonally at top.
Keywords: Education, business and industry, rivers, residences, street scenes, houses, landscape, East High, neighborhood, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-35.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Walter H. Beech and Brice Goldsborough
Title/Object Name: Walter H. Beech and Brice Goldsborough
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1926
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Walter H. Beech (left) and Brice Goldsborough pose by their Travel Air B6 airplane. They teamed to win 1926 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, people, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms97-02.3.2.1

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