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Link to Image Titled: Midian Shrine Temple
Title/Object Name: Midian Shrine Temple
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1927
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: View of newly remodeled building at 115 North Topeka which housed the Midian Shrine Temple from 1927 to 1971. Wichita architect S. S. Voigt designed new interior and exterior for former Elks Club building. Contractors -- Mahaney Roofing, Fortney Tile & Mantle and Roy Warner Floor Laying -- and architect posted their signs at the entrance.
Keywords: Wichita; organizations, clubs and groups; buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.31.1

Link to Image Titled: Steel Trusses for Roswell, New Mexico
Title/Object Name: Steel Trusses for Roswell, New Mexico
Creator: Whittier
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Steel trusses for Roswell, New Mexico, manufactured by Western Iron & Foundry Company. View is looking southeast from railroad tracks toward Keen Kutter building, International Harvester Company and Winfield Wholesale Grocery Company. Photograph taken June 22, 1928.
Keywords: Wichita, business and industry, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.48.3

Link to Image Titled: Downtown Industrial Area
Title/Object Name: Downtown Industrial Area
Creator: Barnes Aerial Surveys
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view of downtown industrial area. 2nd street runs along lower portion of image; Santa Fe (left) and Moore, Mead and Rock Island avenues (right) parallel railroad tracks. Coleman factory and lighted baseball field at lower left; Winfield Wholesale Grocery, Western Iron and Foundry at center; and International Harvester Company at upper right. View is looking northeast.
Keywords: Wichita, aerials, business and industry, buildings, sports and recreation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.72.48.4

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: May Day Festival
Title/Object Name: May Day Festival
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 9.5 x 8.75 inches
Description: Aerial view over campus of Wichita High School East and Roosevelt Intermediate School. A large crowd of spectators surrounds circular formations of performers. Looking northwest toward Douglas Avenue; Grove Street at right.
Keywords: Education, entertainment, public events, rivers, automobiles, street scenes, residences, houses, business and industry, landscape, College Hill, neighborhood, East High, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_A1-35.1.2

Link to Image Titled: Swallow Airplane Factory and Wichita Park Cemetery
Title/Object Name: Swallow Airplane Factory and Wichita Park Cemetery
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 4.75 x 7 inches
Description: Aerial view looking northeast toward the Swallow airplane factory and Wichita Park cemetery located on 2700 block of North Hillside.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, airplanes, biplanes, cemeteries.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.67.10.1

Link to Image Titled: Charles A. Lindbergh piloting a Swallow airplane in Wichita
Title/Object Name: Charles A. Lindbergh piloting a Swallow airplane in Wichita
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Charles A. Lindbergh piloting a Swallow airplane in Wichita. Photograph taken at Swallow Field, 3001 North Hillside Street, on April 19, 1928.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, public events, Charles A. Lindbergh, Swallow Airplane Company.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Kansas and the West Aviation Photographs
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms353.0.0.2

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: Travel Air Factory
Title/Object Name: Travel Air Factory
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of Travel Air factory on southeast corner of Central Avenue and Webb Road. Employee works on partially completed fuselage of Travel Air airplane.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Herb Rawdon Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms81-06.12.7.33

Link to Image Titled: Gage Brewer Orchestra
Title/Object Name: Gage Brewer Orchestra
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Musician Gage Brewer (seated, left) and members of his dance orchestra. Brewer is known as one of Wichita's foremost guitarists of the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. He performed through out the Mid-West for many years, published music and was the proprietor of The Shadowlands Dance Club (later called the Mambo Club).
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, business and industry, musician, dance band, guitars, banjos, ukuleles.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_H5-36.1.1

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