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Link to Image Titled: Wichita Young Women's Christian Association
Title/Object Name: Wichita Young Women's Christian Association
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1917
Physical Details: 8.75 x 7.5 inches
Description: View looking east toward YWCA building,140 North Topeka Avenue. Dedicated in 1916, downtown building was home to organization until 1967 when new facility was completed.
Keywords: Wichita; organizations, clubs and groups; street scenes; buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita YWCA Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-2.8.3.1

Link to Image Titled: Billboards at Douglas Avenue and Ellis Street
Title/Object Name: Billboards at Douglas Avenue and Ellis Street
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1920
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9.5 inches
Description: View looking south at billboards on southwest corner of Douglas Avenue and Ellis Street. Created by Western Sign Works Company, the billboards advertise Holmes Clothing Company, Peerless Dairy, Steel Hardware Company, and Wheeler-Kelly & Hagny Insurance.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, advertisements.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.66.9a.8

Link to Image Titled: Walter H. Beech and Laird Swallow
Title/Object Name: Walter H. Beech and Laird Swallow
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
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.9

Link to Image Titled: Billboards in Downtown Wichita
Title/Object Name: Billboards in Downtown Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1922
Physical Details: 4 x 7 inches
Description: Billboards at southwest corner of William and Lawrence (Broadway) streets, on site where McClellan Hotel now stands. Created by Wichita company Western Sign Works, billboards advertise Comley Lumber, Wichita Automobile and Eberhardt-Hays Music companies.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, street scenes, advertisements.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.66.9a.3

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Flour Mills
Title/Object Name: Wichita Flour Mills
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1922
Physical Details: 9.75 x 8 inches
Description: Wichita Flour Mills' employee filling Kansas Expansion Flour sacks. The mill was located at 17th street and Santa Fe avenue. Top portion of image is cropped. Calendar in background shows January 1922.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, agriculture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.47.5

Link to Image Titled: Fairmount Hall
Title/Object Name: Fairmount Hall
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
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ua.fc.5.12.1

Link to Image Titled: Football Game at Island Park
Title/Object Name: Football Game at Island Park
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
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ua.fc.5.4.1

Link to Image Titled: Wichita High School
Title/Object Name: Wichita High School
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1923
Physical Details: 7.25 x 9 inches
Description: Aerial view looking northwest toward Wichita High School during its construction in 1923. Building with elaborate entry at lower left housed gymnasium until 2003 when it will be remodeled as a science facility. A new gym will open in 2004.
Keywords: Wichita, education, aerials, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-04.3.9.2

Link to Image Titled: Maiden Wichita
Title/Object Name: Maiden Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1925
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of "Maiden Wichita," first airplane produced by Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Prototype for Travel Air Model 4000 was powered by Wright J4 radial engine.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.37

Link to Image Titled: Walter H. Beech and Brice Goldsborough
Title/Object Name: Walter H. Beech and Brice Goldsborough
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1926
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Walter H. Beech (left) and Brice Goldsborough pose by their Travel Air B6 airplane. They teamed to win 1926 Ford Commercial Airplane Reliability Tour.
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_ms97-02.3.2.1

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