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'The Way We Worked' in Baldwin City

A traveling Smithsonian Institution exhibit called “The Way We Worked” opens March 23, 2013, at Baldwin’s Lumberyard Arts Center, featuring photographs from the National Archives, audio and video clips and hands-on components. A companion exhibit specific to Baldwin includes historical photos of Baldwin residents at work.

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Irvin Greer working at Hey Machinery Co., which manufactured airplane and other tires. A fourth-generation ...

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Earl Davault working in the Baldwin Lumberyard, circa 1940s.

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Surveying students at Baker University.

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The bookkeeping room at Baldwin State Bank, circa 1925.

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Moving students into Baker University.

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A child in front of Baldwin's Delmonico College Cafe, unknown address.

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Tom Holland (Kansas state senator, 3rd District), at left, Chainy Folsom and Stephanie Thomas work ...

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A campus cleanup effort at Baker University, dated March 22, 1928.

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A campus cleanup effort at Baldwin University in more recent years.

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Lumberyard Arts Center gallery coordinator Sandy Cardens looks into a model of Fischer's Fancy Grocers, ...

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Tiny patrons relax inside a model of Fischer's Fancy Grocers, later Ford's IGA, which opened ...

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Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) deck crew guides a fighter jet, by Mass ...

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Firefighters amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City, by Andrea Booher, ...

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Young women delivering ice, 1918.

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Submarine builder at Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, by Fenno Jacobs, August 1943.

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Mexican farm worker in lettuce field, Blythe, California, by Charles O’Rear, May 1972.

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Pesticides inspector draws a sample of a toxic liquid, Greenville, Mississippi, by John Messina, March ...

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Switchboard operators direct overseas calls, December 1943.

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Workman on the framework of the Empire State Building, New York City, ca. 1930-31.

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Young loom workers at Bibb Mill No. 1 in Macon, Georgia, by Lewis W. Hine, ...

Comments

Lawrence Morgan 10 years, 2 months ago

Very impressive! I hope a lot of people go to Baldwin City to see this exhibit!

And thanks to the Journal-World for providing such an extensive selection of pictures.

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