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 family business, Hey has been in business since 1929.

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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 to clean up the Baldwin Lumberyard during its renovation into the Lumberyard Arts Center, around 2004.

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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.

photo by: Sara Shepherd

Lumberyard Arts Center gallery coordinator Sandy Cardens looks into a model of Fischer's Fancy Grocers, later Ford's IGA, which opened in 1908 at the corner of Eighth and High streets in Baldwin City. The model will be on display as part of the Way We Worked exhibit opening March 23 at the Lumberyard Arts Center.

photo by: Sara Shepherd

Tiny patrons relax inside a model of Fischer's Fancy Grocers, later Ford's IGA, which opened in 1908 at the corner of Eighth and High streets in Baldwin City. The model will be on display as part of the Way We Worked exhibit opening March 23 at the Lumberyard Arts Center.

photo by: U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy Photo

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) deck crew guides a fighter jet, by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Jonathan Snyder, 2008.

photo by: Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency

Firefighters amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City, by Andrea Booher, September 2001.

photo by: National Archives, Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs

Young women delivering ice, 1918.

photo by: National Archives, General Records of the U.S. Navy

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

photo by: National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency

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

photo by: National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency

Pesticides inspector draws a sample of a toxic liquid, Greenville, Mississippi, by John Messina, March 1974.

photo by: National Archives, Records of the Women’s Bureau

Switchboard operators direct overseas calls, December 1943.

photo by: National Archives, Records of the Works Progress Administration

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

photo by: National Archives, Records of the Children’s Bureau

Young loom workers at Bibb Mill No. 1 in Macon, Georgia, by Lewis W. Hine, January 1909.