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Link to Image Titled: Rajah Rabbitry
Title/Object Name: Rajah Rabbitry
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Birdseye view of commercial enterprise known as Rajah Rabbitry. Owner JS “Rajah” Porter promoted his business as an investment opportunity to Wichitans, promising to buy back offspring of the rabbits he sold. Within the next year he suddenly left town and many local people lost money in the scheme. This photograph was published in the Wichita Beacon, November 10, 1929.
Keywords: Business and industry, automobile, transportation, scandal, con game.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NW-33.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air
Title/Object Name: Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 4 x 5 inches
Description: Aerial view looking east toward Travel Air Airplane Manufacturing Company near intersection of East Central Avenue and North Webb Road. Unit C factory under construction. Photograph taken March 8, 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aerials, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.8

Link to Image Titled: First Aid Department at Travel Air
Title/Object Name: First Aid Department at Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of first aid department at Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Photograph taken May 16, 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, health care, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.6

Link to Image Titled: General Offices of Travel Air
Title/Object Name: General Offices of Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Exterior view of general offices of Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Located on East Central Avenue just east of Webb Road, building was directly north of Factory A on the Travel Air campus. Photograph taken January 14, 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.7

Link to Image Titled: Charles A. Lindbergh and Walter H. Beech
Title/Object Name: Charles A. Lindbergh and Walter H. Beech
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Charles A. Lindbergh (left) and Walter H. Beech pose in front of Travel Air 6000 airplane. Photograph taken in Wichita on February 3, 1929.
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_ms97-02.3.3.1

Link to Image Titled: Wheeler Kelly Hagny Company Women’s Bowling Team
Title/Object Name: Wheeler Kelly Hagny Company Women’s Bowling Team
Creator: Unidentified Wichita newspaper
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 4 x 4 inches
Description: Six women members of team sponsored by Wheeler Kelly Hagny Trust Company in a women’s bowling league. This photograph appeared in either an Eagle or Beacon article noting that all the team members had never bowled before joining that year’s competition. They came from last place to tie for second. All are identified (on file).
Keywords: Business and industry; people; organizations, clubs and groups; sports and recreation; Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H11-47.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air
Title/Object Name: Travel Air "Mystery Ship"
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of the Travel Air Model R monoplane known as the "Mystery Ship" in front of Travel Air factory. The airplane, designed by Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, was the first civilian aircraft to defeat a military one in the annual National Air Race.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation, airplane, Travel Air Manufacturing Company, Mystery Ship.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter E. Burnham Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms80-2.29.7.1

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air
Title/Object Name: Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Bryan-Southwest Transfer and Storage Company employee and equipment maneuvers shipping containers from Travel Air Manufacturing Company at Missouri Pacific Railways tracks in downtown Wichita. Container was bound for Western Pacific Air Transport in Honolulu. Buildings in background include offices of Wichita Sash & Door, Dolese Brothers Company and Western Glass Company and Sedgwick County Courthouse. View is looking northeast.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.4

Link to Image Titled: S. H. Kress & Company
Title/Object Name: S. H. Kress & Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 7.75 x 9.5 inches
Description: Interior view of the Kress Department Store at 224 East Douglas Avenue. The lunch counter and additional retail goods were located in the basement level of this national chain store.
Keywords: Business and industry, five and ten-cent stores, five and dime, dime stores, chain stores, furnishings, cafes, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-96.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Innes Tea Room
Title/Object Name: Innes Tea Room
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.25 inches
Description: Interior of tea room located in the Innes Dry Goods Company, 121 South Lawrence (now Broadway). The popular restaurant retained a reputation as a fashionable downtown eating place into the 1960s.
Keywords: Business and industry, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-40.1.1

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