Advertisement for The Sellers Motor Car Company, Hutchinson, Kansas
Date: 1910
Advertisement for the Sellers Motor Car Company with photos of the investors and the factory, Hutchinson, Kansas. Copied from Hutchinson, The Salt City.

Aerial view of Garden City, Finney County, Kansas
Date: 1935
An aerial view of Garden City, Kansas. The photograph also shows the only sugar factory located in Kansas.

Albin Kasper Longren's photograph album
Date: 1912-1921
This photograph album documents a number of airplanes (biplanes)designed, built and flown by Albin Kasper Longren. He built and flew Topeka's first aircraft on September 2, 1911. At two different times, Longren tried to establish an airplane factory in Topeka, Kansas. His second factory was in an abandoned woolen mill in Oakland, a neighborhood in Topeka, Kansas. The album contains photographs of the exterior and interior of this factory and numerous views of planes and plane parts. Longren's planes were well received, but his business failed because he had difficulty manufacturing numbers of planes. There are two images of a plane parked at the entrance to Gage Park in Topeka. Longren did exhibition flying at county fairs and other events in the region under the name Longren Aviators Exhibition Flyers. The album also has images of biplanes at Coffeyville, Anthony, Stockton, and other locations in Kansas as well as at least one image taken in the following states: Oklahoma, Nebraska, and Texas. Longren built a plane the was purchased by Phillip Billard, a Topeka aviator, and there are images of this plane in the album.

Ash Grove Cement Company, Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas
Date: 1966
These photographs show three exterior views of the Ash Grove Cement Company in Chanute, Neosho County, Kansas.

A trip with the camera man
Date: 1940
This silent film by an unknown photographer features various businesses and industries in Lawrence, Kansas. The film begins with children playing on a playground followed by an airplane landing at an airport. The photographer visits an airplane factory, the Wister Chevrolet Co. car dealer and repair shop, a roller skating rink, the L. T. Harris Co. Oil-O-Matic appliance dealer, a shooting range, a machine shop, an ice plant, the Hall Brothers truck lines, the Cadwell chick hatchery, and a restaurant. The film ends with a plane taking off from the airport.

Birds-eye view of the glass and brick plants near West Mound, Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1908-1918
These two photographs are a black and white birds-eye view of the glass and brick plants taken in 1908, and a hand-colored postcard from 1918. The plants are located near near West Mound in Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas.

Boeing Airplane Company, Wichita, Kansas
Creator: Boeing Airplane Company
Date: 1943
This is a view of men and women employees working on B-29 Superfortress airplanes at the Boeing Airplane Company plant in Wichita, Kansas.

Boeing plant
Date: 1945
Taken on V-J Day, August 15, 1945, this aerial photograph shows the Boeing Plant in Wichita, Kansas. The Plant II facilities in the lower left corner, produced 1,644 B-29 Superfortresses. Plant I in the upper right corner, turned out 10,346 Kaydet primary trainers. Planeview and Hilltop Manor can be seen beyond Plant I. These two housing developments constructed to house defense workers

Bonner Spings. The Kansas Karlsbad
Creator: Shook, John Morgan
Date: About 1907
A pamphlet promoting Bonner Springs, Kansas, as a health resort. Includes photographs by Urbin Rudell. See also the Urbin Rudell photograph collection as item 210247.

Brick plant, Buffalo, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1903 and 1930
These two photographs show workers at the brick plant in Buffalo, Wilson County, Kansas, which opened in October of 1903. In the first photograph a man is standing beside the brick kiln. In the second, a man is standing in a warehouse beside trolleys holding finished bricks.

Buffalo bricks, Wilson County, Kansas
Creator: Kansas. Industrial Development Commission
Date: 1903-1966
This photograph shows a pallette of bricks manufactured at the plant at Buffalo, Wilson County, Kansas. The plant operated from 1903 to 1973.

Cement plant, Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1918
This is a hand-colored postcard showing the exterior of the cement plant in Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas.

Cessna Aircraft Plant in Wichita, Kansas
Creator: M-S News CO., Wichita, Kansas
Date: Between 1930 and 1935
This is a postcard showing the Cessna Aircraft Plant located in Wichita, Kansas.

Cross Manufacturing Company
Date: 1959
This series of photographs represents the interior and exterior of the Cross Manufacturing Company in Lewis, Kansas. See also Unit ID 450383.

Cross Manufacturing Company, Lewis, Kansas
Date: 1959
This series of photographs represents the exterior of the Cross Manufacturing Company in Lewis, Kansas. See also Unit IDs 450383 and 450384.

Cross Manufacturing Company, Lewis, Kansas
Date: 1959
This series of photographs represents the interior of the Cross Manufacturing Company in Lewis, Kansas.

Douglas Avenue, Wichita, Kansas
Date: 1878
A photograph of several businesses on Douglas Avenue in Wichita, Kansas. The business three doors to the right is Fritz Schnitzler's Saloon with a portrait of him above the porch.

Employees of the Smith Automobile Company, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1903 and 1911
A photograph showing a group of employees at the Smith Automobile Factory in Topeka, Kansas. The woman second from right is Ruby McNeeley and the woman on the far right is Winnie Williams.

Factory workers, Neodesha, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1966
These photographs show workers operating machinery in an unidentified factory in Neodesha, Wilson County, Kansas. The machinery includes presses, grinders and welders.

Fredonia Window Glass Company, Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas
Date: 1904-1940
This photograph shows the exterior of the Fredonia Window Glass Company, Fredonia, Wilson County, Kansas. The company incorporated on June 23, 1904.

Home Furniture Factory, Arkansas City, Kansas
Date: Between 1880s and 1890s
A black and white photograph of a home furniture factory in Arkansas City, Kansas.

Hyer Boot Company employees in Olathe, Kansas
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
This photograph shows employees working at the Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, Kansas. Charles H. Hyer, the son of an immigrant German shoemaker, arrived in Leavenworth in 1870 and worked, for a time, building railroads. He soon moved to Olathe and got a job teaching shoe and harness making at the Kansas School for the Deaf. With the money he saved, he opened his own shoemaking shop in Olathe and asked his brother, Ed, to join him in running the business. In the years that followed, the Hyers developed a measurement chart to send out with their flyers that enabled customers, even cowboys at the remotest ranches, to order custom made boots to fit their precise size and fashion preference. The business blossomed and, by 1900, it had grown from two employees to 15. During World War I, the Hyers made boots for the officers at Fort Leavenworth and at Camp Funston. By the 1960s more than 70 people were busy making boots for a worldwide clientele.

Hyer Boot Company in Olathe, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph showing employees standing in front of the Hyer Boot and Shoe Factory in Olathe, Kansas. The company was founded by Charles H. Hyer, the son of an immigrant German shoemaker, who arrived in Leavenworth in 1870 and worked, for a time, building railroads. He soon moved to Olathe and got a job teaching shoe and harness making at the Kansas School for the Deaf. With money he saved, he opened his own shoemaking shop in Olathe and asked his brother, Ed, to join him in running the business. In the years that followed that first satisfied cowboy, the Hyers developed a measurement chart to send out with their flyers that enabled customers, even cowboys at the remotest ranches, to order custom made boots to fit their precise size and fashion preference. The business blossomed and, by 1900, it had grown from two employees to 15. During World War I, the Hyers made boots for the officers at Fort Leavenworth and at Camp Funston. By the 1960s more than 70 people were busy making boots for a worldwide clientele.

Hyer Boot Company in Olathe, Kansas
Date: Between 1895 and 1900
This is a photograph showing employees working at the Hyer Boot Company in Olathe, Kansas. Charles H. Hyer, the son of an immigrant German shoemaker, arrived in Leavenworth in 1870 and worked, for a time, building railroads. He soon moved to Olathe and got a job teaching shoe and harness making at the Kansas School for the Deaf. With the money he saved, he opened his own shoemaking shop in Olathe and asked his brother, Ed, to join him in running the business. In the years that followed, the Hyers developed a measurement chart to send out with their flyers that enabled customers, even cowboys at the remotest ranches, to order custom made boots to fit their precise size and fashion preference. The business blossomed and, by 1900, it had grown from two employees to 15. During World War I, the Hyers made boots for the officers at Fort Leavenworth and at Camp Funston. By the 1960s more than 70 people were busy making boots for a worldwide clientele.

Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, Kansas
Date: Between 1900 and 1910
This is a photograph showing the interior of C. H. Hyer's boot factory in Olathe, Kansas.