Wichita Air Terminal
Early passenger travel was promoted in this 1930 photograph taken at the Wichita Air Terminal. The Stearman LT-1 “Light Transport” biplane had passenger and baggage compartments. Subsidies for carrying air mail kept many early air carriers solvent in the days before heavy passenger travel.
Cessna monoplane
Automaker John Jones offered Clyde Cessna use of the Jones Motor Car Building H in 1916 to build his new monoplane. Cessna painted “Jones Six” on the underside of the Comet to advertise the Wichita automobile.
Lee McDonald
Lee McDonald attended the Braley School of Flying in 1929, paying her tuition with earnings she made as a bookkeeper at the Hotel Lassen. This “Wichita trained woman pilot” found employment in St. Louis in 1930.
Water Street YMCA & American Indian Institute
The Water Street Branch YMCA and the American Indian Institute were just two organizations featured in the “Souvenir Given in the Forum Honoring A.A. Hyde for his Stewardship of Life” in 1925 as charities supported by Hyde that “benefit humanity.”
Albert A. “Bert” Hyde
Albert A. “Bert” Hyde at the Mentholatum Company, circa 1925.
