Aerial view of Menninger Sanitarium East Campus, Topeka, Kansas, 1946
Date: 1946
This aerial view looking directly west to Gage Park shows the growth in the number of buildings in the Menninger East Campus. According to the notes on the back of the photograph, Dr. C.F. had this one on his desk for a long time. This aerial view of the early Menninger Clinic in Topeka looks north west with the junction of Gage Blvd and Sixth Avenue in the upper left corner. This black and white aerial view is of the original Menninger Sanitarium. 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. Their philosophy was that mental illness could be treated with an integrated medical, psychodynamic, and developmental approach for the total health of patients. The Dr. Menningers did not believe that the fate of mentally ill people was to be warehoused; they believed mental illness could be treated. The Menningers brought hope for troubled persons everywhere.

Alvin and Lucinda Todd family in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1946
A photograph of the Todd family (left to right) Alvin, Nancy and Lucinda, taken in Topeka, Kansas. Lucinda Todd was a participant in the Brown vs Topeka Board of Education landmark U.S. Supreme Court case to desegregate schools. She was also the secretary of the Topeka NAACP which brought the Legal Defense Fund to Topeka.

Andrew Frank Schoeppel, Kansas Governor
Date: April 17, 1946
This photograph shows Kansas Governor Andrew Schoeppel pitching at a Kansas City Blues vs Minneapolis Millers baseball game.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company's round house, Argentine, Kanas
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: June 3, 1946
This photograph shows the interior view of the square-backed round house at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway's Argentine Yard in Argentine, Kansas.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's refrigerator car #10663
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1946 and 1960
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's refrigerator car #10663. The car was original built in 1925 and was refurbished in 1946. The letters "SFRD" stand for Santa Fe Refrigerator Department.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #2907
Creator: Goebel, Charles, 1898-1987
Date: March 31, 1946
This black and white photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam engine #3907 at Kansas City, Kansas.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway locomotive #3783 at Los Angeles, California
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1946
A photograph of Atchison,Topeka & Santa Fe Railway's locomotive #3783 standing at the head of a passenger train on track 4 at Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal, Los Angeles, California.

Atchsion, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company's steam locomotive #3761.
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: November, 1946
Trackside frontal three-quarter view of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company's steam powered locomotive engine #3761. Visible is the Worthington water heater, which was installed in November 1946. The photograph was taken at the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal (LAUPT).

Biennial report of the Boys Industrial School, 1946
Creator: Kansas. State Board of Social Welfare
Date: 1946
The Kansas State Reform School, also known as the Industrial School for Boys, was established in 1879 by a legislative act that appropriated $35,000 for the erection of buildings, etc., in Topeka, Kansas. Control and supervision of the school was placed in the hands of the Board of Trustees of Charitable Institutions. The school was located 3 miles north of the capitol building on an original tract of 170 acres that was given by the city of Topeka. The west wing of the main building was opened on June 1, 1881. The school taught boys the rudiments of useful employment as a means of supporting themselves after being discharged from the facility. The boys learned, among other things, tailoring, shoe and harness making, woodworking of various kinds, baking, and printing. Information included in this item are reports from various departments as well as general school statistics.

Business street in Perry, Kansas
Creator: Stebbins, M. L. & Georgie
Date: September 07, 1946
This photograph shows business buildings and vehicles parked at 1st Street and Elm in Perry, Kansas. Visible in the photograph is a truck driving on the street with a man standing on the truck bed.

Christian Assembly Group
Creator: Fogler, Frank
Date: 1946
A group photograph of a 1946 Christian Assembly group in Atchison, Kansas. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Clem Blangers to Senator Arthur Capper
Creator: Blangers, Clem
Date: January 30, 1946
A telegram from Clem Blangers, Salina, Kansas, to Kansas Senator Arthur Capper of Topeka. Blangers, Secretary of the Salina Building Trades Council, requested something be done for the returning war veterans and the jobs that they had left behind that were now being filled by German prisoner of war workers. He asked that the prisoners be removed so that the veterans can have work available.

Commissioning of the U.S.S. Oregon City at Boston, Massachusetts
Date: February 15, 1946
Here are two photographs showing the commissioning of the U.S.S. Oregon City at Boston, Massachusetts.

Damage to the Pike Pawnee monument in Republic County, Kansas
Date: 1946
Several views of damage to the Pike Pawnee monument in Republic County, Kansas. This monument is part of the Pawnee Indian Museum, the oldest historic site owned by the state of Kansas. In 1899 George and Elizabeth Johnson deeded to the state of Kansas most of the site upon which a large Kitkehahki (Republican) band Pawnee earth lodge village had stood in the late 1700's. The state accepted the site in 1901, put up an iron fence and erected a granite obelisk to mark the site where in 1806, United States explorer Zebulon Pike convinced the Pawnees to lower the Spanish flag, recently left there by a large Spanish force and raise the United States flag. Supposedly this was the first time the U.S. flag was raised west of the Missouri River. This flag raising episode was true except it happened about 40 miles up the Republican River at a village the Pawnees moved to after deserting this one. The portion of this site that was saved included 22 earth lodge depressions, numerous storage pit depressions, and remains of the fortification wall. Two house depressions were excavated in 1949 but intensive investigation of the site did not occur until 1965 under the direction of Kansas State Archeologist Tom Witty. In 1967 the museum was constructed around one of the largest of the lodge depressions before it was excavated. What the residents of the lodge left behind was uncovered by the archeologists and left in the exact same spots. Only eight of the 22 lodge depressions have been excavated. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Today the site is operated by the Kansas Historical Society as Pawnee Indian Museum State Historic Site.

Dedication of the Winter General Hospital in Topeka, Kansas
Date: January 11, 1946
Here are three photographs showing the dedication ceremony of the Winter General Hospital located at 2200 SW Gage Boulevard in Topeka, Kansas.

Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler postcard
Date: 1946
Memorial postcard of Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler 1870-1946. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler with Dr. Koeneke
Date: 1946
Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler with his third wife, Dr. Irene Koeneke, standing on the lawn of the Halstead Hospital in Halstead, Kansas. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Dr. Arthur Hertzler Funeral Notice
Date: 1946
A copy of the funeral notice for the passing of Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Ed Wilson of the Abilene, Kansas, baseball team
Date: 1946
Topekan Ed Wilson is pictured in this photograph from 1946. At the time, Wilson was a pitcher with the Abilene, Kansas, Ban Johnson League baseball team. A year later, he also pitched for the Abilene Ikes, a team in the Amateur Baseball League of America. In 1948, Wilson began a minor league career that extended into 1953, and included teams in Miami (OK), Topeka, Paris (IL), Fulton (KY), Iola, and Hannibal (MO). In the 150 minor league games for which his pitching statistics are available, he compiled a 56-32 record, with a 3.62 ERA. In 1954, Wilson joined the staff of the Kansas Department of Revenue in Topeka and remained with the department for a 33-year career. Ed Wilson died in 2002 at the age of 73. Digital reproduction of the photograph was accomplished through a joint project sponsored by the Kansas Historical Society and the Shawnee County Baseball Hall of Fame.

Fellows of the Menninger Foundation School of Psychiatry
Creator: Wolfe, Harold B., 1898-1966
Date: 1946
A group photograph showing Fellows of the Menninger Foundation School of Psychiatry and identification of each student.

First grade at Randolph School in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Schrock, John Edward
Date: May 08, 1946
This is a photograph showing first grade students and their teacher Louise Walter at Randolph School in Topeka, Kansas.

General Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, Salina, Kansas
Date: 1946
These photographs show General Johnathan Mayhew Wainwright IV, prisoner of war and hero of the Pacific War during World War II, in Salina, Kansas. One is a photograph of a parade on a Salina street. The other image shows General Wainwright and unidentified Shriners.

Glee S. Smith, Jr. and Geraldine Buhler Smith family
Date: 1946
This is a photograph showing (left to right) Glee S. Smith, Jr., Sid Smith, and Geraldine Buhler Smith at Christmas. The photograph was used on their Christmas card.

Governor Andrew Schoeppel prohibition correspondence
Creator: Kansas. Governor (1943-1947 : Schoeppel)
Date: 1942-1946
Kansas governor Andrew Schoeppel collected this series of correspondence on prohibition legislation and the repeal of state-sanctioned prohibition. Kansas passed a state constitutional amendment on prohibition in 1880. Kansas repealed that amendment in 1948.

Hangar, Smoky Hill Army Air Force Base, Salina, Kansas
Creator: United States Army Air Forces
Date: May 1946
This photograph shows the airport hangar at the Smoky Hill Army Air Force Base in Salina, Kansas.