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Link to Image Titled: Coleman Lamp Company
Title/Object Name: Coleman Lamp Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1916
Physical Details: 3.25 x 2.25 inches
Description: Volleyball game at Coleman Lamp Company employees’ picnic in Linwood Park.
Keywords: Business and industry; organizations, clubs and groups; parks; people; sports and recreation; Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H1-43.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Park Villa
Title/Object Name: Park Villa
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1917
Physical Details: 4. 2 .25 inches
Description: Park Villa shelter house in North Riverside Park, near Little Arkansas River and Nims Avenue bridge.
Keywords: Sports and recreation, parks, automobiles, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_M1-1.5.9

Link to Image Titled: S. H. Kress & Company
Title/Object Name: S. H. Kress & Company
Creator: Livingston
Date Original: 1917
Physical Details: 2.75 x 2.25 inches
Description: Group of Kress Company employees, preparing to go on an outing. Box lunches and a phonograph record player are among the picnic articles placed on the street. The group is posed in front of the Kress store at 224 East Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Business and industry; people; occupations; employment; transportation; organizations, clubs and groups; sports and recreation; 5 and 10-cent stores; five and dime stores; Merchants Transfer and Storage Company; Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H1-48.1.1

Link to Image Titled: World War I Victory Parade
Title/Object Name: World War I Victory Parade
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1919
Physical Details: 7 x 10 inches
Description: Parade to celebrate the return of soldiers from World War I. Wichita erected the Victory Arch at the intersection of Douglas and Lawrence (now known as Broadway) for the occasion. Buildings in the background include: Winne, Fourth National Bank, Bitting, and Schweiter.
Keywords: Wichita, military, public events, street scenes, people, automobiles, soldiers, children, clothing.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_L1-3.1.14

Link to Image Titled: Alden Wakefield Harden
Title/Object Name: Alden Wakefield Harden
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1919
Physical Details: 5 x 7.75 inches
Description: Portrait of A. W. Harden, an early and prominent photographer in Wichita.
Keywords: Business and industry, photography, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_Harden,Alden

Link to Image Titled: Boy Scouts of America
Title/Object Name: Boy Scouts of America
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 3 x 3 inches
Description: Boy Scout members of Wichita Troop 5 posed with U.S. flag and banner. Location unknown. The first troop in Wichita was organized in 1913. By 1918, when the council was organized, there were 17 troops in the city.
Keywords: Organizations, clubs and groups; people; children; youth; patriotism.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H2-6.7.1

Link to Image Titled: International Wheat Show Exposition
Title/Object Name: International Wheat Show Exposition
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 7 x 10 inches
Description: Five men carrying blocks of ice in preparation for a Wheat Show exhibit in the Wichita Forum, which was located in the 200 block of South Water Street. Various decorative objects, including a doll, a spray of wheat, a basket of flowers, a duck, and a row of apples are frozen in the ice. The City Market was part of the Forum Complex.
Keywords: Wichita, agriculture, arts and entertainment, business and industry, people, public events.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E10-7.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Albert A. Hyde
Title/Object Name: Albert A. Hyde
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 3 x 4 inches
Description: Portrait of Wichita businessman and philanthropist, A. A. Hyde. Founder and owner of the Mentholatum Company, Hyde was active in several civic groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary. He listed his hobby as “philanthropy” in Who’s Who in Wichita (1929). The fact that he supported many organizations is illustrated in a cartoon in the Wichita Eagle. It expressed Wichita’s appreciation with a list of twenty-three agencies that had received Hyde’s assistance.
Keywords: People, business and industry, organizations, clubs and groups.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_Hyde,AA

Link to Image Titled: Telephone Company Picnic
Title/Object Name: Telephone Company Picnic
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1920
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Seven men playing golf on a miniature-sized course laid out among the trees. Various features of the course have signs to indicate “Men’s Tee,” “Women’s Tee,” etc. Location unknown, sandy ground may indicate a river bank.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, public events, sports and recreation, transportation, automobiles, fashion, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H1-53.1.9

Link to Image Titled: Members of the Printing Industry of Wichita
Title/Object Name: Members of the Printing Industry of Wichita
Creator: Frank A. Wesely
Date Original: 1921
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9.5 inches
Description: Group portrait of men who represented printing companies in Wichita. All are identified and their companies included the Wichita Eagle, Wichita Beacon, Mid-Continent Engraving, Love Corrugated Box Company, Grit Printing Company, Horner Print Company, Mid-West Bindery, Western Lithograph, Ballard Engraving Company, Advance Printing company, and Franklin Printing. The young woman is identified as the Executive Secretary of the Printing Industry of Wichita, offices at 408 York Rite Masonic Temple Building.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, organizations, clubs, and groups
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H1-52.1.1

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