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Link to Image Titled: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Title/Object Name: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1960
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Exterior view of truck-loading facility at Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company, West 2nd street and McLean Boulevard. View is to the northeast. Kansas Gas and Electric Company sign and stacks located across the Arkansas River visible in center of image.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, buildings, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.56.2

Link to Image Titled: Municipal Airport, 6701 West Harry
Title/Object Name: Municipal Airport, 6701 West Harry
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1960
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Looking south at terminal building and air traffic control tower. Listed in the 1961 City Directory with this note: "...constructed at a cost of $13-million and covering 2,240 acres. Preparations are under way to equip the Municipal Airport for the jet age." The name was changed to Mid-Continent Airport in about 1974.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, public services, transportation, automobiles, pickup trucks.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D10-6.2.1

Link to Image Titled: Santa Fe Transportation Building
Title/Object Name: Santa Fe Transportation Building
Creator: Howard Eastwood
Date Original: Circa 1965
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of Santa Fe Transportation building at southwest corner of East Waterman and South Emporia streets. Completed in 1958, building was designed by Wichita architectural firm W. I. Fisher and Company.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, buildings
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Howard Eastwood Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms509.34.4.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Public Library
Title/Object Name: Wichita Public Library
Creator: Boeing Photo Service
Date Original: 1968
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: The "new" Wichita Public Library at 223 South Main Street shortly after opening in the late 1960s.
Keywords: Wichita, libraries and museums, education, public services, transportation, arts and entertainment, Public Library, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Chamber of Commerce Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_CHA41

Link to Image Titled: 184th Tactical Fighter Group
Title/Object Name: 184th Tactical Fighter Group
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1969
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Members of the 184th Tactical Fighter Group, U.S. Air Force, return to Wichita after an eleven-month tour of duty in Korea. Location, McConnell Air Force Base.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, government, military, public events, people, transportation, airplanes, servicemen, welcome, home, United States.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_C4-1.1.1

Link to Image Titled: McConnell Air Force Base
Title/Object Name: McConnell Air Force Base
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1970
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Crowd watching an airshow featuring the Air Force Thunderbirds demonstration team. The F-4 Phantom planes are flying in military formation over McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, government, military, people, public events, transportation, airplanes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_C4-4.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Intersection of Market and William Streets
Title/Object Name: Intersection of Market and William Streets
Creator: Joachim H. Walther
Date Original: Circa 1971
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Street scene looking northeast at corner of Market and William Streets. Prominent view of the overhead walkway that extends from the parking garage on the southwest corner to the Sutton Place Building and beyond to the Innes Building. Other buildings on Market include the One Twenty Building, originally built as the Wheeler-Kelly-Hagney Building at 120 South Market and the Thomas Investment Company at 200 South Market. Also seen in the background are the original W. T. Grant Company department store building at 201 East Douglas; and the Fourth National Bank and Trust Company at 200 East Douglas.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation, automobiles.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_U4-1.1.1

Link to Image Titled: A necessary job on a cold day
Title/Object Name: A necessary job on a cold day
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1972
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Miss Jo Anne Connell, telephone information operator of the Rapid Transit Lines in Wichita, Kansas, checks a corner bus schedule as Dreamline Operator Jerry Sudduth makes the change at Topeka and Douglas with the temperature 12 below zero following a recent snowstorm that dumped 17 inches of snow on Wichita. With changes in transit schedules becoming effective it has been necessary for Rapid Transit to change the posted schedules at all of the 1,400 corners where schedules are posted over that particular weekend regardless of the weather so that riders would be able to check the arrival times on Monday morning. Miss Connell gives out most of the telephone information regarding routes and schedules. (Caption from photograph.)
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, public services, transportation, people, street scene
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Bernard Calkins Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2005-03.2.18.2

Link to Image Titled: South Broadway Street Scene
Title/Object Name: South Broadway Street Scene
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1972
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of the 200 block of South Broadway, looking south; shows several businesses, hotels and shops
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, business and industry, transportation, Macy's department store, Fairland Cafe, Hotel McClellan, Dial Finance, Blood Plasma Donor Center, Petroleum Building.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL320

Link to Image Titled: Union Station
Title/Object Name: Union Station
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1985
Physical Details: 4.75 x 6.75 inches
Description: View looking northwest toward covered passenger waiting area on platform at Union Station. Warehouse and industrial buildings along railroad tracks on left, including Sage Drilling Company. Eaton Hotel, in 500 block, and other buildings in 600 block of East Douglas Avenue in background. Passenger trains ran through Union Station from 1914 to 1979.
Keywords: Wichita, transportation, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.36.3

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