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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: 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: 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

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: The Forum
Title/Object Name: The Forum
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 4 x 3 inches
Description: Looking southeast at the Forum on Water Street between William and English. The entire building developed in stages over the years. The first section, on the south end officially opened in 1911. The Exposition Hall and Arcadia Theater on the north end were completed by 1918. At the time it was built, other proposed names for the facility included Hippodrome, Wigwam, and Wichitorium. The Forum hosted a range of public events from Pavlova and Paderewski to circuses and auto shows. It was demolished in 1965 to make way for the Century II Convention Center.
Keywords: Business and industry, arts and entertainment, public events, street scenes, transportation, automobiles, filling stations.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D9-6.1.1

Link to Image Titled: Home of Clifford E. Skaer
Title/Object Name: Home of Clifford E. Skaer
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 4.25 x 3 inches
Description: Residence located at 2722 East Douglas Avenue. Mrs. Annette Skaer, widow of C. E. Skaer and her children are seen on the front lawn.
Keywords: People, architecture, houses, College Hill, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_2722.E.Douglas-1

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: Stearman Fuselage
Title/Object Name: Stearman Fuselage
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Close-up view of Stearman Aircraft Company fuselage manufactured in Wichita.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter P. Innes, Jr. Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-01.1.12.1

Link to Image Titled: Stearman Aircraft Company
Title/Object Name: Stearman Aircraft Company
Creator: Edgar B. Smith
Date Original: Circa 1928
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Stearman biplane parked on landing field in front of factory at 801 West 37th Street North. Word "Burton" barely visible on smokestack. Burton Car Works, street car manufacturer, was original tenant of plant built in 1888; Jones Six automobiles built here in 1910s and 1920s.
Keywords: Wichita, aviation, business and industry.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Walter P. Innes, Jr. Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-01.1.11.2

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