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Manufacturing band uniform hats, Wichita, Kansas

This is a view of a young woman making a band uniform hat at the Fruhauf Uniform Company in Wichita, Kansas.

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Hercules drivers, De Soto, Kansas

A view of three women drivers employed by Hercules Powder Company from the Sunflower Ordinance Works plant in De Soto, Kansas. The plant, established in 1941, was the world's largest smokeless powder and propellant manufacturing plant. It was owned by the U.S. government but operated by the Hercules Powder Company. The company changed it's name to the Sunflower Army Ammunition Plant on August 1, 1963.

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Pomona Tile Company, Arkansas City, Kansas

Kansas Industrial Development Commission

This black and white photograph shows a group of workers assembling tiles at the Pomona Tile Company in Arkansas City, Kansas. The company, a branch of the Pomona Tile Manufacturing Company of Pomona, California, was one of the largest manufactures of ceramic-glazed tiles in the United States. The facility was located at Strother Field between the towns of Arkansas City and Winfield.

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Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, Kansas

Hyer Boot Company (Olathe, Kan.)

An image of the interior of the Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, showing workers sewing designs into sections of boots. The company was once called the Olathe Boot Company and later the Kansas Boot Company.

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Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, Kansas

Hyer Boot Company (Olathe, Kan.)

An image of an unidentified woman displaying boots made by the Hyer Boot Company, Olathe.

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Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, Kansas

Olathe Photo Service

An image of a group of unidentified women at a Christmas or birthday luncheon. These women are possibly employees of the Hyer Boot Company, Olathe.

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Hyer Boot Company, Olathe, Kansas

Hyer Boot Company (Olathe, Kan.)

A color image of two unidentified women with several sets of boots manufactured by the Hyer Boot Company, Olathe.

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Walter Pearce Hull photograph collection

Walter Pearce Hull, 1870-1956

This series of photographs was taken by Walter Pearce Hull. He was born November 22, 1870, in Eyota, Minnesota, grew up in Athens, Alabama, and moved to Kansas as a young man. His parents were Joseph Gould Hull, born May 4, 1840 in Orangeville, Ohio and Eliza Jane Westfall, born October 29, 1847 in Bushnell, Illinois. By 1894 he was manager of the Northrup Store in Colony. He served as a 1st Lt. In the 20th Kansas Infantry, U.S. Volunteers, 1898-99, during the Philippine-American War, serving on Frederick Funston's staff. He returned to Iola after he was discharged and was manager of the Northrup store there. Hull was a skilled amateur photographer. Many of the photos were taken while he was courting Lenna Myrtle Jolliffe, 1908-1909. They married December 22, 1909 in Bentonville, Arkansas. They lived at 420 S. Washington Street, Iola and had three children: Harriet, born September 29, 1910, Berrien Jolliffe, born October 15, 1913, and Lenna Doris, born December 3, 1915.

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Olive Ann Beech

This is a photograph of Olive Ann Beech, wife of Walter H. Beech. She was born and raised on a farm south of Waverly, Kansas. Olive Ann attended business college in Wichita and worked for the Travel Air Manufacturing Company in Wichita. She married Walter H. Beech on February 24, 1930. In 1932, they co-founded the Beech Aircraft Corporation. After her husband's death in 1950, Olive Ann assumed the position of president of the corporation and was named its chairman emeritus after her retirement in 1982. She brought the company through fifty years of growth from the Staggerwing Biplane to Skylab, and from ten employees to ten thousand. Her other honors include: woman of the Year (1951); Kansan of the Year (1958); and nomination to the NASA Space Shuttle Study Committee (1971).

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Hutchinson Bag Company, Hutchinson, Kansas

This black and white photograph shows a group of women sewing bags for the Hutchinson Bag Company in Hutchinson, Kansas. The company was founded in 1919 by Emerson Carey and James Dick and began manufacturing bags for salt production. The company changed its name in 1991 to Hubco Inc. and expanded manufacturing to include flour and retail packing.

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