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Link to Image Titled: Students of the American Indian Institute
Title/Object Name: Students of the American Indian Institute
Creator: Deluxe Studios, Wichita
Date Original: 1928
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Students pose in front of dormitory at American Indian Institute, a high school for Native American boys at 3500 East 21st Street. Founded by Henry Roe Cloud in 1915, the Roe Indian Institute became the American Indian Institute in 1920 and operated until 1939.
Keywords: Wichita, education, Native Americans, American Indian Institute, Roe Indian Institute, Henry Roe Cloud.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms99-3.1.aii.1

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: Zoo in Central Riverside Park
Title/Object Name: Zoo in Central Riverside Park
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 5.75 x 9.25 inches
Description: View of zoo in Central Riverside Park. Built in 1921 and remodeled in 1927, structure was scheduled to be torn down in 1973, the same year as new Sedgwick County Zoo opened.
Keywords: Wichita, parks.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.71.53.1

Link to Image Titled: Santa Claus and Stearman Airplane
Title/Object Name: Santa Claus and Stearman Airplane
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 9.75 x 7.5 inches
Description: Santa Claus climbing into a Stearman airplane at hangar at Wichita Municipal Airport in city's southeast section.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, airports, airplanes, Santa Claus.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.67.10.4

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air Model R
Title/Object Name: Travel Air Model R
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Travel Air Model R monoplane known as the "Mystery S" or "Mystery Ship." Designed by engineers Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, it was first civilian aircraft to defeat military one in annual National Air Race in 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter E. Burnham Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms80-02.29.7.3

Link to Image Titled: First Aid Department at Travel Air
Title/Object Name: First Aid Department at Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Interior view of first aid department at Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Photograph taken May 16, 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, health care, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.6

Link to Image Titled: General Offices of Travel Air
Title/Object Name: General Offices of Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Exterior view of general offices of Travel Air Manufacturing Company. Located on East Central Avenue just east of Webb Road, building was directly north of Factory A on the Travel Air campus. Photograph taken January 14, 1929.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.7

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air
Title/Object Name: Travel Air "Mystery Ship"
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: View of the Travel Air Model R monoplane known as the "Mystery Ship" in front of Travel Air factory. The airplane, designed by Walter Burnham and Herb Rawdon, was the first civilian aircraft to defeat a military one in the annual National Air Race.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation, airplane, Travel Air Manufacturing Company, Mystery Ship.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter E. Burnham Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms80-2.29.7.1

Link to Image Titled: Travel Air
Title/Object Name: Travel Air
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1929
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Bryan-Southwest Transfer and Storage Company employee and equipment maneuvers shipping containers from Travel Air Manufacturing Company at Missouri Pacific Railways tracks in downtown Wichita. Container was bound for Western Pacific Air Transport in Honolulu. Buildings in background include offices of Wichita Sash & Door, Dolese Brothers Company and Western Glass Company and Sedgwick County Courthouse. View is looking northeast.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.4

Link to Image Titled: Charles A. Lindbergh and Walter H. Beech
Title/Object Name: Charles A. Lindbergh and Walter H. Beech
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1929
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Charles A. Lindbergh (left) and Walter H. Beech pose in front of Travel Air 6000 airplane. Photograph taken in Wichita on February 3, 1929.
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_ms97-02.3.3.1

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