Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1949

Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.5 inches

Description: Automobile painted with slogans that advertise the Wagon Wheel Tavern, featuring their "Wag-Inn Burgers” at 201 North Walnut Avenue. Children not identified.

Keywords: Business and industry, cars, Delano neighborhood, West Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_T3-19.1.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1950

Physical Details: 7.5 x 9.5 inches

Description: Looking northwest at the Commodore Hotel, 222 East Elm Street (intersection of Broadway and Elm).

Keywords: Business and industry, residences, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, architecture, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D6-20.1.1

Creator: Edgar B. Smith

Date Original: Circa 1950

Physical Details: 9.75 x 7.5 inches

Description: Detail view of exterior of Commodore Hotel, 222 East Elm Street. Looking west on Elm toward Market Street.

Keywords: Business and industry, people, residences, lawn furniture, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D6-20.1.2

Creator: Edgar B. Smith

Date Original: Circa 1950

Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches

Description: Location, 123-133 North Main Street. View of display window with mannequins and hosiery products. The theme emphasizes the scarcity of silk and urges women to purchase before supplies are gone. This appears to relate to homefront economy during the Korean War, but it is not stated as such.

Keywords: Business and industry, retail, store.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_E3-57.1.8

Creator: Unruh Studio

Date Original: 1950

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Loading broomcorn on a railroad car at the John L. Denning Company located at 529 North Mead. Wichita was a major distribution and shipping center for broomcorn.

Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, agriculture, transportation.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce

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

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.68.44.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1950

Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches

Description: Interior view of Fourth National Bank located at northeast corner of Douglas Avenue and Market Street.

Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, banks, buildings.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce

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

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.67.13.5

Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap

Date Original: 1951

Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches

Description: Looking south in night view of Crest Theatre exterior, 4825 East Douglas Avenue. Built in 1950, near Lincoln Heights Shopping Center at Oliver and Douglas. The theatre was demolished in 1997. Also in view, Lewin’s Little Shop, 4823 East Douglas and Youthful Shoes, 4827 East Douglas. The motion picture “Bright Victory” was released in 1951.

Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, sports and recreation, street scenes transportation, automobiles, neon, movies, films, Flaming Feather, Arthur Kennedy, Peggy Dow, Forrest Tucker, Wichita, architecture.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D8-19.2.1

Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap

Date Original: Circa 1951

Physical Details: 9.75 x 7.5 inches

Description: Looking southeast in night view of Sunset Theatre at 1600 Lulu Avenue. The motion pictures “Thunder on the Hill” and Anne of the Indies” were released in 1951.

Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, sports and recreation, movies, films, neon, Claudette Colbert, Ann Blyth, Louis Jourdan, Jean Peters, architecture, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D8-21.1.1

Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap

Date Original: Circa 1951

Physical Details: 7.5 x 9.75 inches

Description: Night view of marquee for the Meadow Lark Drive In Theatre at 4445 East Harry. The motion pictures “Flame of Araby” and “Cattle Drive” were released in 1951.

Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, sports and recreation, movies, films, neon, Maureen O’Hara, Joel Chandler, Joel McCrea, Dean Stockwell, architecture, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D8-22.1.1

Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap

Date Original: Circa 1951

Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5

Description: Night view, exterior of Southern Theatre, 408 East Harry Street. The feature film “Cattle Drive” was released in 1951.

Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, sports and recreation, movies, films, neon, automobile, transportation, street scene, architecture, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D8-24.1.1

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