Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1922

Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches

Description: Wagon, teams, and steam-operated machines, including a “steam shovel,” owned by Ritchie Construction Company excavating a site at Second Street and Crestway in the College Hill neighborhood.

Keywords: Business and industry, development, residences, people, occupation, employment, street scenes, transportation, landscape, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_E10-12.1.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1922

Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches

Description: Walter H. Beech piloting three-place open cockpit Laird Swallow biplane in Wichita. Men in front places not identified. Beech's name is painted on plane marking his place. Laird Swallow airplanes were built in Wichita from 1919 to 1923.

Keywords: Wichita, aviation, people, airplanes.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection

Repository: Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.9

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1922

Physical Details: 3.75 x 3 inches

Description: Unidentified group of men and women with tent and camping gear. Location unknown.

Keywords: Sports and recreation, transportation, people, Wichita, automobile.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_H6-26.1.1

Creator: Homer T. Harden

Date Original: Circa 1923

Physical Details: 3 x 4 inches

Description: Birdseye view looking west on Douglas Avenue near the intersection of Market Street. Broadview Hotel in background.

Keywords: Business and industry, people, transportation, street scene, streetcar, trolley, automobile, traffic.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_U2-2.1.7

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1923

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Charles and Edna Startzman Residence, 405 North Spruce. Startzman was a carpenter.

Keywords: Residences, people, porch.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl1881

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1923

Physical Details: 4.5 x 7 inches

Description: Fairmount College and Friends University play their annual Thanksgiving Day football game on Thursday, November 29, 1923. Game played at Island Park on Ackerman Island in Arkansas River. View is looking northeast; Lassen Hotel at 1st and Market Streets visible in background.

Keywords: Wichita, sports and recreation, people, education.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: University Archives

Repository: Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ua.fc.5.4.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1923

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: View looking east toward Fairmount Hall. Constructed in 1887, Fairmount Hall housed classrooms, offices and chapel for Fairmount College and the University of Wichita until it burned down in 1929. It was located just northeast of intersection of North Hillside and East 17th streets. It faced Hillside Street.

Keywords: Wichita, education, people, buildings, Wichita State University.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: University Archives

Repository: Wichita State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ua.fc.5.12.1

Creator: Homer T. Harden

Date Original: 1924

Physical Details: 6 x 10 inches

Description: Thirty-one unidentified men posed with band instruments. Notes written on photograph include: "Mexican Band, Wichita, Ks...Organizer and Director, Prof. A. De La Mara."

Keywords: Wichita; arts and entertainment; organizations, clubs and groups; people; immigrants.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_H5-15.1.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1924

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Interior of Wesley Pharmacy, located at 501 North Hillside. Earl Mansford, Claude Bennett (owner), and John Bowers (fountain jerk).

Keywords: Business and industry, people, African American, soda fountain

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl1923

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1924

Physical Details: 4 x 2 inches

Description: Four Wichitans, all identified (on file), posed with their automobiles and camping gear in Loueta Pass. A tent appears to be strung between the automobiles. The right auto bears an indistinct “Wichita” identification plate with the trademark Hockaday “H” sold by Hockaday Auto Supplies Company.

Keywords: People, transportation, sports and recreation, transportation, Wichita, sportswear, knickers, middy blouse, fashion.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_L4-10.1.1

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