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Link to Image Titled: United States Surveyors Surveying Sedgwick County
Title/Object Name: United States Surveyors Surveying Sedgwick County
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1867
Physical Details: 8.5 x 11 inches
Description: U.S. Surveyors surveying Sedgwick County, Kansas. Chief surveyor Samuel Smoot at right center, identified by a small x beneath his image.
Keywords: Wichita, government, people, surveyors, surveying, Samuel S. Smoot, Sedgwick County, tents, horses, cattle.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms91-3.10.5


Link to Image Titled: Texas Cattle Fording Arkansas River at Wichita, Kansas, July 1869
Title/Object Name: Texas Cattle Fording Arkansas River at Wichita, Kansas, July 1869
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1869
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Texas Cattle Fording Arkansas River at Wichita, Kansas, July 1869
Keywords: Wichita, rivers, people, livestock, cowboys, horses.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms91-3.10.3


Link to Image Titled: Wichita's Main Street in 1870, Looking North from Douglas Avenue
Title/Object Name: Wichita's Main Street in 1870, Looking North from Douglas Avenue
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1870
Physical Details: 6.5 x 8.5 inches
Description: View of Main Street in Wichita, looking north from Douglas Avenue.
Keywords: Wichita, street scenes, people, transportation, business and industry, stores, covered wagons, wagons, horses.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Ignace Mead Jones Collection of James R. Mead Papers
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms91-3.9.14.1


Link to Image Titled: Frontier Fire Company
Title/Object Name: Frontier Fire Company
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1872
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Frontier Fire Company shortly after it was organized.
Keywords: Organizations, clubs, and groups, people, public services.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1835


Link to Image Titled: Early Train to Wichita
Title/Object Name: Early Train to Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1872
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Wichita & Southwestern Train. This was one of the early trains that came in from Newton, Kansas.
Keywords: Transportation, depot, people, engine.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl1232


Link to Image Titled: James R. Mead Residence
Title/Object Name: James R. Mead Residence
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: 1872
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: Residence of James R. Mead, 307 East Central.
Keywords: Residences, people, mansard roof.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl523


Link to Image Titled: First Church in Wichita
Title/Object Name: First Church in Wichita
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1873
Physical Details: 4.5 x 6.5 inches
Description: Wichita citizens posed in front of church building in Wichita, built around 1870 and used by the Protestant Episcopal Church, now St. John's Episcopal Church. The location was north of Third Street on east side of Main Street.
Keywords: Wichita, religion, people, churches, St. John's Episcopal Church, architecture.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Richard M. Long Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wsu_ms96-4.2.6.2


Link to Image Titled: Deffenbaugh and Lewis Mill
Title/Object Name: Deffenbaugh and Lewis Mill
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1874
Physical Details: 5 x 7 inches
Description: View of the first mill in Wichita. Located at Hydraulic and First Streets.
Keywords: Wichita, agriculture, business and industry, street scenes, transportation.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_D2NE-1.1.1


Link to Image Titled: Douglas Avenue looking east
Title/Object Name: Douglas Avenue looking east
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1874
Physical Details: 8 x 10 inches
Description: Douglas Avenue looking east from Main. The New York Store is on the north side. Dunscombs is on the south side.
Keywords: Street scenes, horses, wagons, commercial buildings.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photograph
Collection Name: Wichita Public Library Photograph Collection
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wpl_wpl354


Link to Image Titled: Home of J. C. Fraker
Title/Object Name: Home of J. C. Fraker
Creator: Unknown photographer
Date Original: Circa 1875
Physical Details: 4 x 2.75 inches
Description: Residence of J. C. Fraker at 306 East Central Avenue. Second Empire style features mansard roof. The Fraker family is seen posed with the house. By 1896 it was occupied by the Samuel Houck family, owners of Houck Hardware Company.
Keywords: People, business and industry, architecture, landscape, Wichita.
Subject: Wichita (Kan.) -- Pictorial works
Type: Photographic Contact Print
Collection Name:
Date Digital: 2003
Identifier: wschm_306.E.Central-1


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