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Link to Image Titled: Ackerman Island
Title/Object Name: Ackerman Island
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Birdseye view looking northwest from the Broadview Hotel (101 North Waco). Site of the Ackerman Island removal project, which was funded by federal funds during the Great Depression. The island was removed and displaced as lines of workmen hauled soil from the island in wheelbarrows and dumped it as fill on the west bank of the river. The Civil Works Administration, one of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs, paid the men about $12.00 a week for 30 hours of work [Wichita Eagle, 11/21/1933]. Ackerman Island had been the site of Wonderland Amusement Park and a baseball stadium. The bridges at center served the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The tall smokestack in the background was at the Kansas Gas and Electric Company plant. The Arkansas River winds northwesterly through the view.
Keywords: Government, public services, rivers, transportation, landscape, skyline, West Wichita, Delano neighborhood, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_S2-2.1.1

Link to Image Titled: First Methodist Episcopal Church
Title/Object Name: First Methodist Episcopal Church
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: First Methodist Episcopal Church, located at 330 North Broadway.
Keywords: Religion.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1484

Link to Image Titled: Friendly Fever Clinic at 1028 North Broadway
Title/Object Name: Friendly Fever Clinic at 1028 North Broadway
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1934
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Friendly Fever Clinic at 1028 North Broadway, founded in 1934 by Drs. W. M. Edgerton and C. E. Richter; a clinic for homeopathic treatment
Keywords: Wichita, health care, residences, business and industry, Friendly Fever Clinic, Dr. W. Meredith Edgerton, Dr. Clarence E. Richter, Dr. Loren B. Miller, Anna Miller, diathermy, Biological Molecule Resonance Generator, homeopathy, doctors, medicine.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Edgar B. Smith Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_EBS408

Link to Image Titled: Wichita Police Department
Title/Object Name: Wichita Police Department
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1934
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Description: Looking south at Central Police Station, 109 East William Street. This building was the object of emergency relief funds and labor during the New Deal era of the Great Depression. In 1933 Wichita received funds to convert the structure, which had been the Central Fire Station, into a “modern police station.” The building was remodeled and received a new Art Deco architectural style (compare to item wschm­_­N1-6.1.1 in this database). The Wichita City Hall, known as the City Building, is at right.
Keywords: Government, public services, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, policemen, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_N2-1.8.1

Link to Image Titled: The Forum
Title/Object Name: The Forum
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1934
Physical Details: 9.25 x 7.25 inches
Description: Interior of exposition hall in the Forum complex, 231 South Water Street. Unidentified auto display featuring Buick automobiles and GMC trucks, including a long-distance passenger bus.
Keywords: Arts and entertainment, public events, transportation, cars.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_E5-89.5.1

Link to Image Titled: Cessna Engineering Department Test Group
Title/Object Name: Cessna Engineering Department Test Group
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1934
Physical Details: 5.5 x 9.5 inches
Description: Dwane Wallace, second from right, poses with other members of Cessna Aircraft Company's engineering department test group. Wallace, nephew of founder Clyde Cessna, guided the company from 1934 to 1975.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Dwane Wallace Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms98-18.21.26.1

Link to Image Titled: Innes Wholesale Furniture Company
Title/Object Name: Innes Wholesale Furniture Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 9.5 x 7.75 inches
Description: Looking southwest at furniture company, 701-723 East First Street.
Keywords: Business and industry, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, railroad crossing signals, architecture, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-113.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Beech Aircraft
Title/Object Name: Beech Aircraft
Creator: Monty Barnes
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 6.25 x 9.5 inches
Description: Walter H. Beech looks on as shipping container holding Beech airplane is loaded onto boxcar. Container is addressed to Roger-Jenkins & Company of Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, people, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.3

Link to Image Titled: Beech Aircraft Bound for Philippines
Title/Object Name: Beech Aircraft Bound for Philippines
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: 1935
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Beech Aircraft Company airplane in shipping container on Yellow Cab Company truck. Philippine Aerial Taxi Company in Manila is intended recipient. Truck parked in front of Factory A at Beech Aircraft plant.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter H. and Olive Ann Beech Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_tms408.9.factory.5

Link to Image Titled: White Castle
Title/Object Name: White Castle
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1935
Physical Details: 9.75 x 7.75 inches
Description: Looking southeast at a White Castle hamburger stand, 3159 East Douglas Avenue. The national White Castle System, Inc. was founded in Wichita in 1921 by Walter Anderson and “Billy” Ingram. They expanded the chain of popular restaurants eastward. In 1933, Ingram, then the sole owner, moved the company headquarters to Columbus, Ohio. While still in Wichita, the company developed the distinctive, all-steel frame structure enclosed with interior and exterior porcelain enamel panels. The portable, 5-stool buildings were designed by another Wichitan, Loyd Ray. Note the company slogan, “Buy ‘em by the Sack,” which introduced homemakers to the idea of carry-out meals.
Keywords: Business and industry, café, lunch counter, architecture, Edgar Waldo Ingram.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Tihen
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2SE-56.1.1

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