A spell created: A Sesquicentennial History of Wichita and Sedgwick County
A spell created: A Sesquicentennial History of Wichita and Sedgwick County
A spell created : a sesquicentennial history of Wichita and Sedgwick County 1870-2020.
- Wichita, KS Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum 2021
- xi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 35 cm
Includes index.
Civil War and peace treaty -- "This vast and beautiful world" -- "A storehouse created by God" -- "The sun does not shine as bright" -- "The camp at the mouth of the Little Arkansas" -- "The rule there is action" -- "Rounding into form" -- "Iron muscles that never tire" -- "I woke up one morning on the Old Chisholm Trail, a rope in my hand and a cow by the tail" -- "Home on the range" -- "It's a lively place" -- "Corn is king!" -- "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" -- "If Kansas is the garden spot of the Earth, save us from such happiness" -- "Where waved the tasseled grains" -- "We are not all ruffians" -- "The magnet was money" -- "The good doctor" -- "God in his mercy called thee away" -- "No inn on either continent was worth a continental; I roamed in vain to find content till I struck the occidental."-- "Every picture tells a story" -- "Wichita! How she spreads" -- "New Greek, slightly sprinkled with Romanesque" -- "Real estate! Real estate! Everywhere" -- "From the eagle's roost" -- Sam Jones -- "We were fishing for whale" -- "Call a halt" -- "Wichita is bound to have the crown" -- "The world is Wichita's market" -- A.A. Hyde -- "Drinking in dry places" -- "That Nation woman" -- "The moral uplift" -- "Bulldozing females" -- "With women, wonderful Wichita wins" -- "Suitable for all modern lines of business" -- "Fads and fancies" -- "The little boathouse on the prairie" -- Wichita's Coney Island -- "The best shows on the road" -- "See! She rises!" -- "Just tell them that you saw me at the Wichita Street Fair" -- "Sell them their dreams" -- "Trade will lead a man far" -- "A narrow blanket of toleration" -- "Make way for the girls" -- "No man ever looked upon Wichita and doubted" -- "There is but one Wichita" -- "Watch Wichita win" -- "The aeroplane is ours": The Walnut Grove Air Meet -- "The mecca of oildom" -- "Pluck, perseverance, and petroleum" -- "Ten thousand barrels of prosperity a day" -- "When a Wichita woman said 'I will'" -- "Automobility" -- "A 105 degree automobile fever" -- "Phill-up with Phillips '66" -- "Difference in sameness" -- "The flying center of the United States" -- "The world must be made safe for democracy" -- "The army behind the army" -- "Win the war with wheat" -- "The greatest sacrifice" -- "Boys, we are glad to see you" -- "Gathering goat feathers" -- "On to Wichita" -- "Speed is the 'fly-word' of the skies" -- "A union station for the railroad of the air" -- "Wichita's trademark -- wings" -- "Too fast for a woman to fly" -- "Follow the swallow" -- "Travel Air for air travel" -- "Cessna -- A 'master's expression'" -- "For every flying reason" -- "The Beechcraft is out in front" -- "The dean of aviation photography" -- "War clouds rain dollars in Wichita" -- Wichita's "Betsy" fashions a flag -- Cecil McAlister -- "A popular amusement place" -- "No rain yet this year" -- "This hour is haywire, but it is not hopeless" -- "Give a man a job and you save both body and spirit" -- "All honor and praise to the old pioneers" -- "Keep the heart of the West in Wichita" -- "A new meal" -- "An architectural virtuoso" -- "Music for all occasions" -- "300,000 miles to victory" -- "The witch" -- "A handsome and beautiful silver service" -- "America's most virile industrial city" -- "A test tube for democracy" -- "Women not afraid of grease and dirt" -- "There are too many people" -- "The war kick" -- "Detroit of the small plane age" -- "Force of the future" -- "A real place to live" -- "Stability, good character, and permanent value" -- "Dymaxion dwelling machine" -- "Cost like fury" -- "More than airplanes" -- "All American city" -- "Standing-up by sitting-in" -- "What is happening in Wichita?" -- Chester I. Lewis, Jr. -- "The times they are a-changin" -- "Taste of Wichita" -- "The federal bulldozer" -- "Protect, enhance, preserve, and use" -- "A world class museum experience" -- "Re-purposing our past" -- "We have honestly tried to represent all factions" -- "Frankly abstractionist" -- "Midwestern bohemians" -- "Wichita's vortex sutra" -- "Won't you be my neighbor?" -- "The people who have made the Wichita of today" -- "The great shift" -- "Celebrate the heard of the country" -- "This is Sedgwick County" -- "Together, we have the power to make a change" -- "#ILOVEWICHITA" -- "We're all in this together" -- "Ad Astra Per Aspera" -- Remembering and forgetting / Jay Price.
9781735441696 1735441694
2021908305
History
Photographs
Kansas -- Wichita
Kansas -- Sedgwick County
F689.W6 / S64 2021
978.1/86
Includes index.
Civil War and peace treaty -- "This vast and beautiful world" -- "A storehouse created by God" -- "The sun does not shine as bright" -- "The camp at the mouth of the Little Arkansas" -- "The rule there is action" -- "Rounding into form" -- "Iron muscles that never tire" -- "I woke up one morning on the Old Chisholm Trail, a rope in my hand and a cow by the tail" -- "Home on the range" -- "It's a lively place" -- "Corn is king!" -- "Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God" -- "If Kansas is the garden spot of the Earth, save us from such happiness" -- "Where waved the tasseled grains" -- "We are not all ruffians" -- "The magnet was money" -- "The good doctor" -- "God in his mercy called thee away" -- "No inn on either continent was worth a continental; I roamed in vain to find content till I struck the occidental."-- "Every picture tells a story" -- "Wichita! How she spreads" -- "New Greek, slightly sprinkled with Romanesque" -- "Real estate! Real estate! Everywhere" -- "From the eagle's roost" -- Sam Jones -- "We were fishing for whale" -- "Call a halt" -- "Wichita is bound to have the crown" -- "The world is Wichita's market" -- A.A. Hyde -- "Drinking in dry places" -- "That Nation woman" -- "The moral uplift" -- "Bulldozing females" -- "With women, wonderful Wichita wins" -- "Suitable for all modern lines of business" -- "Fads and fancies" -- "The little boathouse on the prairie" -- Wichita's Coney Island -- "The best shows on the road" -- "See! She rises!" -- "Just tell them that you saw me at the Wichita Street Fair" -- "Sell them their dreams" -- "Trade will lead a man far" -- "A narrow blanket of toleration" -- "Make way for the girls" -- "No man ever looked upon Wichita and doubted" -- "There is but one Wichita" -- "Watch Wichita win" -- "The aeroplane is ours": The Walnut Grove Air Meet -- "The mecca of oildom" -- "Pluck, perseverance, and petroleum" -- "Ten thousand barrels of prosperity a day" -- "When a Wichita woman said 'I will'" -- "Automobility" -- "A 105 degree automobile fever" -- "Phill-up with Phillips '66" -- "Difference in sameness" -- "The flying center of the United States" -- "The world must be made safe for democracy" -- "The army behind the army" -- "Win the war with wheat" -- "The greatest sacrifice" -- "Boys, we are glad to see you" -- "Gathering goat feathers" -- "On to Wichita" -- "Speed is the 'fly-word' of the skies" -- "A union station for the railroad of the air" -- "Wichita's trademark -- wings" -- "Too fast for a woman to fly" -- "Follow the swallow" -- "Travel Air for air travel" -- "Cessna -- A 'master's expression'" -- "For every flying reason" -- "The Beechcraft is out in front" -- "The dean of aviation photography" -- "War clouds rain dollars in Wichita" -- Wichita's "Betsy" fashions a flag -- Cecil McAlister -- "A popular amusement place" -- "No rain yet this year" -- "This hour is haywire, but it is not hopeless" -- "Give a man a job and you save both body and spirit" -- "All honor and praise to the old pioneers" -- "Keep the heart of the West in Wichita" -- "A new meal" -- "An architectural virtuoso" -- "Music for all occasions" -- "300,000 miles to victory" -- "The witch" -- "A handsome and beautiful silver service" -- "America's most virile industrial city" -- "A test tube for democracy" -- "Women not afraid of grease and dirt" -- "There are too many people" -- "The war kick" -- "Detroit of the small plane age" -- "Force of the future" -- "A real place to live" -- "Stability, good character, and permanent value" -- "Dymaxion dwelling machine" -- "Cost like fury" -- "More than airplanes" -- "All American city" -- "Standing-up by sitting-in" -- "What is happening in Wichita?" -- Chester I. Lewis, Jr. -- "The times they are a-changin" -- "Taste of Wichita" -- "The federal bulldozer" -- "Protect, enhance, preserve, and use" -- "A world class museum experience" -- "Re-purposing our past" -- "We have honestly tried to represent all factions" -- "Frankly abstractionist" -- "Midwestern bohemians" -- "Wichita's vortex sutra" -- "Won't you be my neighbor?" -- "The people who have made the Wichita of today" -- "The great shift" -- "Celebrate the heard of the country" -- "This is Sedgwick County" -- "Together, we have the power to make a change" -- "#ILOVEWICHITA" -- "We're all in this together" -- "Ad Astra Per Aspera" -- Remembering and forgetting / Jay Price.
9781735441696 1735441694
2021908305
History
Photographs
Kansas -- Wichita
Kansas -- Sedgwick County
F689.W6 / S64 2021
978.1/86