Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: 1925

Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches

Description: Western League Association Baseball Park, located on Ackerman Island. The ball park was known as Island Park and later Association Park.

Keywords: Sports and recreation, river, bridges, automobiles, aerials.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection

Repository: Wichita Public Library

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wpl_wpl435

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 3.5 x 2.25 inches

Description: Man and woman posed on the seat of a Farm-All International Tractor, grain binder attached.

Keywords: Agriculture, people, agricultural implements, wheat, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_E4-15.1.1

Creator: Edgar B. Smith

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches

Description: Wichita High School East, 2301 East Douglas Avenue; designed by architect Lorentz Schmidt. This new building was constructed in 1922-1924 to replace the Wichita High School at 324 North Emporia; renamed East High in 1929. The Architectural style is considered modified Collegiate Gothic.

Keywords: Education, Wichita, bridal wreath spirea, architecture.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photograph

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_D7-14.5.1

Creator: A. J. Pullian

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 4.5 x 2.25 inches

Description: Four unidentified boys in football uniforms. Location of school, 1405 South Lawrence Avenue (now Broadway).

Keywords: Sports and recreation; education; organizations, clubs and groups; people; students; Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_H11-12.1.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 3 x 3.75 inches

Description: Group of young women gathered around a fountain on the campus of Mount Carmel Academy.

Keywords: Education; religion; organizations, clubs and groups; Wichita; girls; students; school.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_H9-8.1.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches

Description: Members of Coleman Company women’s basketball team.

Keywords: Business and industry; sports and recreation; uniform; sportswear; fashion; organizations, clubs and groups; people; Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_H11-38.1.1

Creator: Unknown photographer

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches

Description: Group leader Gage Brewer (seated) in the early years of his career as a musician, songwriter, and dance orchestra leader. His group began performing on radio in Wichita, then traveled in and out of the U.S., and ultimately Brewer established the Shadowlands Dance Club in Wichita in 1937.

Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, public events, guitars, banjos.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name:

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_H5-36.3.1

Creator: Edgar B. Smith

Date Original: Circa 1925

Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches

Description: Aerial view over campus of Wichita High School and Roosevelt Intermediate School. Looking southwest toward Lincoln Street; Douglas Avenue in foreground intersects with Grove Street at lower left. The complex of the high school included the main building, the gymnasium, and the shops. The new school boasted an auditorium with seating for 2200, a laundry, an ice plant, an office vault, a greenhouse, and a heating plant [A History of Wichita Public School Buildings, 1978, p 179]. The curve of trees at right indicates the original bed of Chisholm Creek which was straightened into the canal that bisects the view diagonally at top.

Keywords: Education, business and industry, rivers, residences, street scenes, houses, landscape, East High, neighborhood, Wichita.

Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works

Type: Photographic Contact Print

Collection Name: Tihen

Repository: Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wschm_A1-35.2.1

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

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

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.37

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

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

Date Digital: 2003

Identifier: wsu_ms97-02.3.2.1

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