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Link to Image Titled: McKenzie Midget Auto
Title/Object Name: McKenzie Midget Auto
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 4 x 3.25 inches
Description: Young boys grouped around a miniature automobile built by Leo L. McKenzie, who owned McKenzie Body Works, 117 West First Street. McKenzie specialized in building and retrofitting trucks to suit the owners’ needs. He also repaired damaged cars and remodeled some early models into pickup trucks. Businesses in the background include Golden Rule Oil Company on First Street and White Castle Hamburgers at intersection of Broadway and First.
Keywords: Street scenes, business and industry, people, children, African Americans, transportation, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_T3-34.1.4

Link to Image Titled: Fourth National Bank
Title/Object Name: Fourth National Bank
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1932
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Fourth National Bank, located at 202-206 East Douglas.
Keywords: Business and industry, people, automobile.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1462

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: Wichita Business College
Title/Object Name: Wichita Business College
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 10 x 8 inches
Description: Elaborate entrance to Wichita Business College, 114-116 North Market Street. Classes were held in upper-story rooms.
Keywords: Wichita, education, buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Archives of the Wichita Area Chamber of Commerce
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms2002-12.73.17.1

Link to Image Titled: Aerial View of Wichita Municipal Airport
Title/Object Name: Aerial View of Wichita Municipal Airport
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1933
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Aerial view of Wichita Municipal Airport and parking areas, at 3800 South Oliver.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, transportation, aerials, airports, airplanes.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_WPL2057

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: 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

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