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Link to Image Titled: Filling Station at Lewis and Broadway
Title/Object Name: Filling Station at Lewis and Broadway
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1930
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Filling Station at Lewis and Lawrence (Broadway) that sold Red Crown Gasoline. The station could have been the National Refining Company Filling Station No.3. They were there for several years.
Keywords: Business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1876

Link to Image Titled: Homer T. Harden
Title/Object Name: Homer T. Harden
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1930
Physical Details: 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Description: Portrait of Homer T. Harden posed with a camera mounted on a tripod. His image appears to be superimposed on a view overlooking Douglas Avenue. This photo promotes Harden’s interest in commercial photography. Activity in the street scene includes automobiles, pedestrians, and a streetcar. A header card on top of the streetcar reads “College Hill/Union Depot.” The view is looking west toward the Broadview Hotel. Other business signs visible on the north side of Douglas are: Holland Theater (118 East Douglas), Braitsch Shoe Company (120 East Douglas), Jones-O’Neal Shoe Company (126 East Douglas). Also in view, Fourth National Bank (202 East Douglas), and the Winne Building (210 East Douglas).
Keywords: Business and industry, photographer, photography, people, Midian Shrine Temple, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_Harden,Homer2

Link to Image Titled: Eaton Hotel
Title/Object Name: Eaton Hotel
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of main lobby, looking toward grand staircase, in the Eaton Hotel, 523 East Douglas.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, people, furniture, tile, columns, interiors, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-87.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Continental Oil Company Filling Station and Car Wash
Title/Object Name: Continental Oil Company Filling Station and Car Wash
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1931
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Ted Milligan, Clyde Schimer and Dudley Dorr in uniforms in front of Continental Oil Company filling station at Murdock and Waco Streets; Schimer and Dorr were known as the "Gold Dust Twins"; station was built in 1930.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation, people, filling stations, gas stations, Continental Oil Company, Conoco, car wash, gasoline, Ted Milligan, Clyde Schimer, Dudley Dorr.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL1976

Link to Image Titled: Dr. John R. Brinkley and Morton Levand
Title/Object Name: Dr. John R. Brinkley and Morton Levand
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Dr. John R. Brinkley and Morton Levand pose in the press room of the Wichita Beacon newspaper. Dr. Brinkley, famous for his goat gland transplants, was an unsuccessful Kansas gubernatorial candidate in 1930, 1932 and 1934. The Levand family owned and published the Beacon from 1928 to 1960.
Keywords: Wichita, people, politicians.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Morton Levand Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-04.1.15.1

Link to Image Titled: McKenzie Midget Auto
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Young boys grouped around a miniature automobile built by Leo L. McKenzie, who owned McKenzie Body Works, 117 West First Street. McKenzie specialized in building and retrofitting trucks to suit the owners’ needs. He also repaired damaged cars and remodeled some early models into pickup trucks. Businesses in the background include Golden Rule Oil Company on First Street and White Castle Hamburgers at intersection of Broadway and First.
Keywords: Street scenes, business and industry, people, children, African Americans, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.4

Link to Image Titled: Fourth National Bank
Title/Object Name: Fourth National Bank
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Fourth National Bank, located at 202-206 East Douglas.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, automobile.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1462

Link to Image Titled: Cessna Engineering Department Test Group
Title/Object Name: Cessna Engineering Department Test Group
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1934
Physical Details: 5.5 x 9.5 inches
Description: Dwane Wallace, second from right, poses with other members of Cessna Aircraft Company's engineering department test group. Wallace, nephew of founder Clyde Cessna, guided the company from 1934 to 1975.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Dwane Wallace Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-18.21.26.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Skyline
Title/Object Name: Wichita Skyline
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 3.75 x 2.75 inches
Description: Looking northwest toward downtown Wichita. View of city skyline from the Schweiter farm which was bounded by Lincoln, Harry, Hillside, and the drainage canal.
Keywords: People, landscape, rural, haystacks.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A2-10.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Friends University Museum
Title/Object Name: Friends University Museum
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1935
Physical Details: 5 x 6.5 inches
Description: Curator Mark A. Reeve poses with tusks at the Friends University Museum located on the upper floors of Davis Hall. In operation from 1929 to mid-1990s, the museum was later renamed the Fellow-Reeve Museum.
Keywords: Wichita, libraries and museums, education, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.70.36.1

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