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This is a photograph showing a Wichita Beacon newspaper carrier wearing a dust mask. He is standing beside his bicycle and holding a newspaper, most likely during a dust storm. Bovard's Furniture Store and the Post Office are in the background. There is an automobile parked in front of the Post Office.
Date: 1935
Item Number: 220083
Call Number: FK2.N3 N.4 D.1935 *1
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 220083
Business and Industry - Media/Communications - Newspaper
Business and Industry - Retail - Furniture and appliances
Collections - Photograph
Community Life - Disasters and accidents - Dust Storms
Date - 1930s - 1935
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Agencies - Post Offices
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Places - Cities and towns - Ness City
Places - Counties - Ness
Thematic Time Period - Great Depression and Dust Bowl, 1929 - 1941
Transportation - Bicycles
Type of Material - Photographs
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