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Link to Image Titled: Travel Air factory interior
Title/Object Name: Travel Air factory interior
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Travel Air factory production scene
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people, Travel Air Manufacturing Company, airplanes, interiors.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-6.12.7.1

Link to Image Titled: Riverside Boat Company
Title/Object Name: Riverside Boat Company
Creator: Homer T. Harden
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Looking east across the Little Arkansas River at the Riverside Boathouse (known earlier as Israel's Boathouse and Murdock Avenue Boathouse). Founded near the intersection of Murdock and Waco, in the late 1890s, the boat rental business and its original small structure, grew in size and commercial enterprise for more than 50 years. It was demolished during the "urban renewal" efforts of the 1960s.
Keywords: Wichita, bridges, business and industry, parks, people, public events, rivers, sports and recreation, transportation, canoes, boating, swimming.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_M1-2.3.4

Link to Image Titled: Phillips Petroleum Company Air Service Fuel Truck
Title/Object Name: Phillips Petroleum Company Air Service Fuel Truck
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Phillips Petroleum Co. Air Service Fuel Truck operating in Wichita. Walter Beech is standing next to the plane. The plane is a Travel Air 4000.
Keywords: Aviation, business and industry, people, airplane, truck.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl651

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air 7000 Airplane
Title/Object Name: Travel Air 7000 Airplane
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Travel Air 7000 airplane.
Keywords: Aviation, people, fashion.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl589

Link to Image Titled: Home of Clifford E. Skaer
Title/Object Name: Home of Clifford E. Skaer
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 4.25 x 3 inches
Description: Residence located at 2722 East Douglas Avenue. Mrs. Annette Skaer, widow of C. E. Skaer and her children are seen on the front lawn.
Keywords: People, architecture, houses, College Hill, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_2722.E.Douglas-1

Link to Image Titled: Ward Braley in
Title/Object Name: Ward Braley in "Beezle Bug"
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Ward Braley in his "Beezle Bug" B1 airplane. Ward was the son of Tom Braley of the Braley Aircraft Co.
Keywords: Aviation, people, aircraft.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl291

Link to Image Titled: Fairmount Hall after fire
Title/Object Name: Fairmount Hall after fire
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: People viewing the scene after the fire at Fairmount Hall, at Wichita University, northeast corner of 17th street and Hillside.
Keywords: Education, people, children, bicycle, fires.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl444

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: 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

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