Plant operations staff at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1980 and 1989
A plumber is shown working on pipes in the plant operations department of the Menninger Clinic. The Plant Operations staff kept Menninger Clinic patients and staff buildings comfortable, with working utilities, and attractive grounds.

Mail room at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: December 1976
Randy Ripple and Mike Munoz are shown sorting mail at the Menninger Clinic. Dr. C.F. Menninger and his sons, Dr. Karl and Dr. Will, formed a group psychiatry practice in 1919. The Menninger Clinic as a sanitarium was established in 1925 with the purchase of a farm house and admittance of 12 patients. The philosophy was that mental illness could be treated with an integrated medical, psychodynamic, and developmental approach for the total health of patients.

Storeroom at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: December 1976
Don Davis and Leonard Woods are shown handling the requests for supplies from other Menninger staff. Dr. C.F. Menninger and his sons, Dr. Karl and Dr. Will, formed a group psychiatry practice in 1919. The Menninger Clinic as a sanitarium was established in 1925 with the purchase of a farm house and admittance of 12 patients. The philosophy was that mental illness could be treated with an integrated medical, psychodynamic, and developmental approach for the total health of patients.

B. Horne, archivist at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1983
B. Horne was archivist at the Menninger Foundation for 13 years. She retired May 12, 1983. Menninger is a leading psychiatric hospital dedicated to treating individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research. Once located in Topeka, Kansas, they relocated in 2003 to Houston, Texas.

Howard Shevrin, M.D., with research equipment at the Menninger Foundation Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1964
Dr. Howard Shevrin and several colleagues are shown with research equipment. Menninger is a leading psychiatric hospital dedicated to treating individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research. Once located in Topeka, Kansas, they relocated in 2003 to Houston, Texas.

Terry Patterson, PhD, researcher at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Young, Hank
Date: Between 1980 and 1989
Terry Patterson, PhD, conducted research on schizophrenia at the Menninger Foundation. He is shown here with the reel-to-reel recording tapes used in his research.

Lolafaye Coyne, Ph.D., statistician at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Young, Hank
Date: Between 1980 and 1989
Lolafaye Coyne, Ph.D., was the statistician for the Research Department of the Menninger Foundation. The Department had many research projects including genetics, schizophrenia, infancy, brain waves and biofeedback, migraines, and social interactions.

Selectric typewriter
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
Black and white photograph of Don Kaufman using a Selectric typewriter in his work at Office Services at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.

Dean Page at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: June 1982
Dean Page is shown with new building plans of the Menninger Clinic. In 1925, the Menninger Sanitarium Corporation purchased a farmhouse on the west edge of Topeka, Kansas. The farmhouse became the inpatient clinic and the surrounding 20 acres were developed with buildings and gardens to become the "East Campus" of the Menninger Foundation. In 1982, the "West Campus", a much larger area, was developed west of Topeka, a residential scale community of 28 structures on a 350 acre hilltop campus.

Dean Collins, M.D., teaching at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1980 and 1989
Dr. Collins, a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, teaching a group of psychiatric residents at the Menninger Clinic. Menninger is a leading psychiatric hospital dedicated to treating individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research. Once located in Topeka, Kansas, they relocated in 2003 to Houston, Texas.

Menninger Clinic plaque in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1975
Governor Robert Bennett unveils a plaque at the rededication of the Menninger Clinic building during their fiftieth anniversary celebration. This photograph shows the National Register of Historic Places plaque placed on the original Menninger Clinic building, a farmhouse purchased in 1925 and remodeled to serve for inpatient treatment.

Menninger Clinic plaque, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1975
This photograph shows the National Register of Historic Places plaque placed on the original Menninger Clinic building, a farmhouse purchased in 1925 and remodeled to serve for inpatient treatment. The Menningers brought a positive commitment to psychiatry when they opened the doors to their sanitarium in 1925 and admitted its first 13 patients. During the Fiftieth Anniversary celebration, the farm building was rededicated.

Psychiatric aides at the Topeka State Hospital
Date: 1952
The Topeka State Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, provided one year of training for psychiatric aides, sponsored in part by the Menninger Clinic. These two photographs show the publicity for the training and the creed of the psychiatric aides.

Harriet Lefley, PhD and W. Walter Menninger, M.D. at Menninger Clinic
Date: Between 1991 and 1999
Harriet Lefley, PhD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Miami, is shown walking with W. Walter Menninger, M.D. on the West Campus of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas.

Exhibits at the Menninger museum in Topeka, Kansas
Date: May 1964
This photograph shows the "Old Asylum Room" in the Menninger Museum. It was on exhibit in the Tower Building in Topeka, Kansas. The Tower building had been the hospital for the previous owner, Security Benefit Life, and was converted into offices and the museum.

Child's bedroom in Luhnow, Menninger Clinic
Date: 1961
This photograph shows the newly constructed children's division of the Menninger Clinic in 1961. Luhnow was a 20 bed unit for the treatment of disturbed children.

Moving Day for the Menninger Clinic Children's Division
Date: 1961
This photograph shows a crew moving the children's hospital to the East Campus. Shortly after opening the sanitarium in 1926, the Menningers established Southard School for emotionally disturbed children, following the advice of Karl Menninger's mentor, Boston Psychopathic Hospital's Dr. Elmer Ernest Southard, who told Dr. Karl "not to forget the children."

Pantry, kitchen, and dining room of the Security Benefit Association hospital in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Wolfe Commercial Photo Service
Date: 1920
Three photographs showing the pantry, kitchen, and dining room of the hospital built by the Security Benefit Association. The members paid a nickel a month for hospital care, an orphanage for their children if the member died, and an old folks home, all centered around a model farm in Topeka, Kansas.

Topeka State Hospital in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Evanhoe, Clara May
Date: Between 1957 and 1960
This photograph shows three buildings at the Topeka State Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. The Topeka State Hospital (earlier called the Topeka Insane Asylum), a state funded institution for the care and treatment of the mentally ill in Topeka, Kansas, was in operation on this site from 1879 to 1997. It was located at 2700 W 6th St. The first buildings in both Topeka and Osawatomie were designed by John G. Haskell, one of the architects of the Kansas State Capitol.

Dr. Clyde S. Smith's medical office, Rossville, Kansas
Date: Between 1932 and 1959
Dr. Clyde S. Smith was born November 8, 1881, in Edina, Missouri. He practiced medicine in Willard, Kansas, around 1905 to 1922, then moved to Rossville, Kansas. He married Rose Humphrey in February 1906. He owned one of the first automobiles in Rossville, a K-R-I-T, in 1912. He practiced medicine in Rossville until 1959, retiring only three months before he died in June of 1959. His medical office was located at the present location of Main Street and Pottawatomie. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.

Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt with friends outside his office, Rossville, Kansas
Date: Between 1885 and 1919
Pictured left to right are Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt, Clare Miller, Esther Pratt Parr, and Mabel Binns Bruce. Dr. Henry Fuller Pratt was born in Kossuth, Ohio, December 8, 1861. He moved to Topeka, Kansas, when he was four. He married Jennie DeVinney in 1888. He practiced medicine in Rossville, Kansas, from 1885-1887 and 1895-1919. He served as the first president of the Peoples State Bank from 1909-1919 and was a member of several organizations. This photograph is provided through a pilot project to host unique cultural heritage materials from local libraries on Kansas Memory and was accomplished by mutual agreement between the Northeast Kansas Library System, the Rossville Community Library, and the Kansas Historical Society.

Dr. John Reynold's optometry office in Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1960 and 1969
Three photographs of Dr. John Reynold's optometry office located on the 10th floor of 534 S. Kansas Avenue in Topeka, Kansas.

Keys Manual Arts Building, Menninger Clinic East Campus in Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1950 and 1958
This black and white photograph shows the Keys Manual Arts Shop on the East Campus of the Menninger Clinic in Topeka as it looked during the 1950's. The gift of Mrs. Lucy Stearns McLaughlin, it was opened in 1942 to promote research into the use of occupational therapy techniques in treatment and to train therapists in such techniques. The building was named for the donor's first husband. In 1925, the Menninger Sanitarium Corporation purchased a farmhouse on the west edge of Topeka, Kansas. The farmhouse became the inpatient clinic and the surrounding 20 acres were developed with buildings and gardens to become the "East Campus" of the Menninger Foundation. These photographs document the construction of an important building in the Menninger philosophy of treatment. In 1982, the "West Campus", a much larger area, was developed west of Topeka. In 2003, the Menninger Foundation was moved to Houston, Texas.

Patient's room at Menninger Hospital East Campus, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: 1929
This an an interior view of the "Men's Cottage" which later became the South Office for the Menninger Clinic. In 1925, the Menninger Sanitarium Corporation purchased a farmhouse on the west edge of Topeka, Kansas. The farmhouse became the inpatient clinic and the surrounding 20 acres were developed with buildings and gardens to become the "East Campus" of the Menninger Foundation. In 1982, the "West Campus", a much larger area, was developed west of Topeka, a residential scale community of 28 structures on a 350 acre hilltop campus. In 2003, the Menninger Foundation was moved to Houston, Texas

Men's Craft Shop on Menninger East Campus, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1939
The Men's Craft Shop was later converted to the South Offices. Menninger is a leading psychiatric hospital dedicated to treating individuals with mood, personality, anxiety and addictive disorders, teaching mental health professionals and advancing mental healthcare through research. It was located in Topeka, Kansas, from 1925 to 2003 and is now in Houston, Texas.