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Fairmont College in Wichita, Kansas
Creator: Tanner, C. A. & Co.
Date: Between 1905 and 1910
This is a postcard showing Fairmont College in Wichita, Kansas. Fairmount College was initially an all womens college, with support and motivation from the Plymouth Congregational Church. Builders sited Fairmount Hall--the main campus building--on an elevation in northeast Wichita; however, the building stood empty for several years after the Wichita growth boom collapsed in 1888. The college for women never opened its doors. A corporation bought the property and named the school Fairmount Institute. It opened in September 1892 to men and women, with an emphasis on training its students in preaching or teaching. Sixteen students enrolled the first semester and 40 students in the spring semester. Although the student population increased, Fairmount Institute closed because of financial difficulties.
Fairmount College (for men and women) opened on the same site in 1895, with funding by the Congregational Education Society. In 1926, CES trustees gave it as a gift to the city of Wichita. This act gave rise to the municipal University of Wichita, funded through taxes paid by citizens. In 1964, the University of Wichita became Wichita State University -- an institution governed by the Kansas Board of Regents. This building burned to the ground in 1929.
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Fairmont College in Wichita, Kansas
Creator: C. A. Tanner & Company
Date: June 17, 1908
This is a postcard showing Fairmount College in Wichita, Kansas. It was a private Congregational school and was founded in 1886 by the Rev. Joseph Homer Parker. Collegiate classes began in 1895. In 1926, by a vote of the citizens of Wichita, the college became a public non-denominational institution named the Municipal University of Wichita; it was the first municipal university west of the Mississippi.
After 38 years as a municipal university, it changed its status on July 1, 1964, when it officially entered the state system as Wichita State University.
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Fairmount College football team in Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing members of the Fairmount College football team seated on the steps of Fairmount Hall in Wichita, Kansas. Fairmount College would later become Wichita State University.
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Jean Price interview
Creator: Price, Jean
Date: February 12, 1992
Jean (Scott) Price was born in Wichita, Kansas, on June 16, 1929, and attended segregated schools from the first through eighth grades. She then attended the integrated North High School. For a short time she lived in Kansas City, Kansas and attended the segregated Sumner High School. She graduated from North High School in Wichita and later on from Wichita University (now Wichita State University) with a degree in teaching. She also received her master's in education from Emporia State. After moving to Topeka in 1956, Price accepted a job at the Parkdale School where she was the only teacher of African-American descent. After the Supreme Court declared segregated schools unconstitutional in 1954, Parkdale became integrated. She also taught at the Lowman Hill School. According to her interview, she generally got along well with her students' parents and school officials, even though some were opposed to desegregation. The interview was conducted by Jean VanDelinder.
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KMUW radio room, Wichita, Kansas
Creator: Rorabaugh & Millsap
Date: Between 1950 and 1959
This photograph shows a group of Wichita State University students preparing for a radio and speech class inside the KMUW radio room.
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Michaelis family with their Nash cars in Russell, Kansas
Date: 1949
This is a photograph of the Michaelis family with their Nash cars in Russell, Kansas. The father Honis and his three sons each owned a Custom Ambassador Airflyte. The photograph was taken when Boyer Nash Motors, Inc., Salina, Kansas, delivered the last car to the Michaelis family. People in the photograph are (left to right) Marvin Michaelis, his children Beverly and Danny; Honis Michaelis; Herbert Michaelis, his daughter Linda; and Leroy (Roy) Michaelis. This photograph was published in the Nash News, Volume 13, Number 8, September 1949, along with an article on testing full-size cars in a wind tunnel at the Municipal University of Wichita at Wichita, Kansas. The photograph was taken on 4th Street near Maple Street. Honis Michaelis had the brick houses in the background built for himself and two of his sons. Honis lived in the house on the right (408 Maple) and Marvin lived in the middle house. Roy lived in the house on the left for a time.
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The magic city. Wichita picturesque and descriptive
Creator: Art Publishing Company
Date: 1889
A pictorial publication containing sixty photographs and illustrations of Wichita, Kansas. The following are inlcuded: street scenes, business buildings, schools, opera house, hotels, churches, factories, depots, government buildings, electric railways, residences, and the Arkansas River.
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Thurlow Lieurance and Antonio La Hau
Date: 1910-1920
This is a photograph of Thurlow Lieurance, renown composer, and Antonio La Hau. Lieurance's musical career began as a bandsman with the 22nd Kansas Volunteer Regiment during the Spanish American War. Later he studied at the Cincinnati College of Music. Lieurance became fascinated with Native American music and instruments and that fascination led to innumerable compositions, including his best known piece, "By the Waters of Minnetonka," first recorded in 1914. From 1926 to 1945 he was Dean of Fine Arts at Wichita University (now Wichita State University) and took that school's music program to national prominence.
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Turning first sod for a new dormitory in Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
A photograph showing school officials turning the first sod for a new dormitory, possibly at Fairmount College in Wichita, Kansas. The third man from the right is Nathan Morrison, first President of Fairmount College.
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William Marion Jardine
Creator: Henry Miller News Picture Service
Date: March 06, 1925
A photograph of William Marion Jardine (fourth from the right) taking the oath of office for United States Secretary of Agriculture. He served in this office during the presidency of Calvin Coolidge. As one of the first Kansans to gain a cabinet level position at the national level, he was instrumental in directing a farm program that had become economically depressed during the post World War I period. Prior to his selection to this cabinet level position he had served as Dean of the School of Agriculture at Kansas State Agricultural College (Kansas State University) and subsequently became president of that institution from 1918 - 1925. Following his tenure as Secretary of Agriculture, President Hoover appointed Jardine as Ambassador to Egypt in 1930. Upon his return to this country in 1933, Gov. Alf Landon appointed him a temporary Kansas State Treasurer in the wake of the Finney Bond Scandal. Jardine resigned from that position in April 1934 and became the president of the University of Wichita (now Wichita State University). Senator Arthur Capper is standing second from the right.
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