1963-1964 Kansas Legislature
Date: Between January 01, 1963 and December 31, 1964
This roster represents the Kansas Legislature in office from 1963 to 1964 while Govenror John Anderson Jr. was in office.

1963 Wichita Dreamliners baseball bat
Date: 1963
These photographs show the commemorative baseball bat received by Gil Carter as a member of the Wichita Rapid Transit Dreamliners semi-pro baseball team in 1963. That year, the Dreamliner team successfully defended its state and national semi-pro titles by winning tournaments at both levels sponsored by the National Baseball Congress. In the state tournament, the Dreamliners defeated Wichita Service Auto Glassmen by a 6-5 score in the eleventh inning of the final game. In the national tournament, the Dreamliners bested Ponchatoula, Louisiana by a score of 5-4 in the title game. Both tournaments were held in Wichita. Gil Carter was an outfielder for the 1963 Dreamliners. He also was in the starting lineup for the Dreamliners in 1962, when the team won its first state and national semi-pro titles (see Kansas Memory number 310423). Digital images of the commemorative bat were created through a joint project sponsored by the Kansas Historical Society and the Shawnee County Baseball Hall of Fame.

Aerial photographs of Leavenworth County, Kansas
Date: August 05, 1963
These five aerial photographs show the Union Pacific Railroad line in Leavenworth, Kansas, as well as parts of Leavenworth and the Missouri River.

Aerial view of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kan.
Date: July 23, 1963
An aerial photograph showing the south end of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kan.

Aerial view of Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas
Date: July 23, 1963
An aerial photograph showing the runway, aircraft, and buildings at Forbes Air Force Base, Topeka, Kansas.

Aerial view of Menninger West Campus, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1963 and 1965
This aerial view was taken before any of the Menninger Clinic construction. The grounds had been used previously by the Security Benefit Company for a hospital, orphanage and school, home for the elderly and model farm. The Tower building, visible in the back of the photo, was used as the hospital.

Aerial view of Menninger east campus in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1963
An aerial view of Menninger East Campus. The Children's Unit is in the left background and Topeka State Hospital is in the upper right background. Arguably, the major contribution of Menninger may be that at a time when custodial care or the asylum were the only alternatives for the mentally ill, the Menninger's brought a positive commitment to psychiatry when they opened the doors to their sanitarium in 1925 and admitted its first 13 patients. They did not believe that the fate of mentally ill people was to be warehoused; they believed mental illness could be treated. The Menninger's brought hope for troubled persons everywhere. In May, 1925, The Menninger Sanitarium Corporation purchased the 20 acre farm and the farmhouse became the 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. In 2003, the Menninger Foundation was moved to Houston, Texas.

Aerial view of the Menninger West Campus, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1963
This colored aerial view is of the West Campus a few years after the purchase of the property from the Security Benefit Associaton. The recreation area, the swimming pool and bath house and tennis courts are visible in the lower section of the photograph.

Anonymous resident to the governor's wife
Date: August 20, 1963
An anonymous Kansas resident writes the wife of Governor John Anderson Jr. of Topeka concerning a proposed atheist colony near Stockton, Kansas. The author expresses her opposition to the colony and regards it as a plot of communist Russia. Madalyn Murray [O'Hair] of Baltimore, Maryland, proposed the colony after the Supreme Court decision in Murray v. Curlett (1963) declared prayer in schools unconstitutional. Ms. Murray formed Other Americans, Inc. (a Maryland corporation) to advance atheist interests and establish an atheist colony in Kansas. Carl Brown, a farmer near Stockton and former Kansas state senator, served as a director of that corporation. Mr. Brown, an avowed atheist, deeded 160 acres of land near Stockton to the corporation. During the 1950s and 1960s, the national debate over the role of religion in public life centered on the use of prayer in public schools. Many people associated atheists with communists and approached this issue from the larger context of the cold war. Historical Society staff removed the author's name and place of residence from this copy of the letter to comply with her request for privacy.

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company unit train, Clovis, New Mexico
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: 1963
This slide shows an Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Company unit train of covered hoppers traveling through Clovis, New Mexico.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Great Bend, Kansas
Creator: Killam, H.
Date: August 1963
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Great Bend, Kansas. The "county seat" style depot, built in 1911 with white bricks, features an open waiting room and a Santa Fe emblem located along the pitch roof. The structure still stands but is no longer in operation.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot, Ottawa, Kansas
Date: July 14, 1963
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company depot in Ottawa, Kansas. It was formerly know as the Ottawa Junction. The depot is located on the Eastern Lines, Eastern Division, Second and Third District.

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company sign board, Princeton, Kansas
Creator: Killam, H.
Date: July 14, 1963
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company sign board in Princeton, Kansas. The tracks are part of the Eastern Lines, Eastern Division, Third District.

Autograph of Female Aviator Louise Thaden
Creator: Thaden, Louise McPhetridge, 1905-1979
Date: July 24, 1963
This is an autograph from female aviator Louise Thaden on a first day issue Amelia Earhart cover postmarked July 24, 1963. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Baby Santa Claus outfit
Creator: J.C. Penney
Date: between 1960 and 1965
Joan Ledeboer arrived just in time for Christmas, on December 3,1963, in Belvue, Kansas. Her aunt and uncle, Mary and David Prickett, bought this infant's Santa Claus ensemble for Joan's first holiday. Mary had purchased it from J.C. Penney, a major retailer that issued its first catalog that very same year.

Ball of rope made by a state hospital patient
Date: October 03, 1963
A male patient at Topeka State Hospital in Topeka, Kansas, wove this rope, photographed in 1963. The inscription reads : "A male patient in a state hospital collected grocery string wherever he could find it, wove it into rope -- the result, a ball of one continuous strand of rope and years and years of solitary life withdrawn from people."

Boswell Junior High School football team, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1962 and 1963
This black and white photo depicts the football team from Boswell Junior High School in Topeka Kansas. The team members are identified by the following rows: First Row: Eddie Townsend, Paul Tholl, Charles Scott, Jim Weir, Pat Hutcheson, Galen Holston, Kirk Snyder, Bill Larson, Jim Sapp, Steve Dolan. Second Row: Ron Fraker, Paul Morehouse, Martin Cummings, Mike Oroke, Ken Dickson, Phil Davenport, Bob Davis, Dennis Wood, Rex Gentry. Third Row: Tom Gaddie, Mike Bolley, Orange Dean, John Armstrong, Rob Balsters, Ivan Johnson, Chuck Neff, Paul Gray. Fourth Row: Steven Dean, Hilo Smith, Richard Sicks, Marvin Lawton, Preston Carrington, Bill Barker, Galen Schwarz, Walter Hatke. Fifth Row: Bruce Dolan, Gary Hodison, Mike Hutcheson, Ronny Davis, Randy Holstrom, John Majorkurth, Robert Stevenson, Jim Perry. Sixth Row: Donnell Alston, Bill Stevenson, David Wesley, Bill Gilmore, Jim Holford, Leroy Lindsey, Bill Craig, Les Dodd, Steve Wilson, Jerry Holstrom.

Bridges in Allen County, Kansas
Date: 1914-1963
These photographs depict Marsh arch and other bridges in Allen County, Kansas. A number of images of a rainbow bridge on U.S. Hwy 169 are included. There is also a postcard of a bridge near Elsmore, Kansas, with the caption "Scene of murder of Viola Ard while she was driving a Ford Car near the Ard home 3 miles west of Elsmore, Ks."

Cedar Bluff dam in Trego County, Kansas
Date: 1963
This series of photographs is showing construction on the Cedar Bluff dam in Trego County, Kansas.

Ceremony at the Pony Express Station, Washington County, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: July 14, 1963
Four photographs showing a ceremony at the Hollenberg Pony Express Station marking the location as a registered National Historic Landmark. The three men pictured by the monument are S. Sohl, M. Mattes, and L. Dieker. The Hollenberg ranch house was built in 1857 by Gerat H. and Sophia Hollenberg, establishing a way station for travelers on the Oregon-California Trail, and from 1860 to 1861 they operated a Pony Express station. After Gerat Hollenberg's death in 1874, the station became a farm home until 1941 when the Kansas Legislature purchased the building and the surrounding seven acres. The site was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1961 and two years later, the Kansas Historical Society was given the responsibility to operate it as Hollenberg Pony Express Station Historic Site.

Charles Hadsall house at the Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site, Linn County, Kansas
Date: 1963-1965
Multiple views of the Charles Hadsall house after renovation. This house is located on the Marais des Cygnes Massacre State Historic Site. On May 19, 1858, Missouri border ruffian Charles Hamelton and some 30 other men rode through the village of Trading Post, Kansas, and captured 11 free-state men, and marched them into a ravine where they opened fire upon them. Five of the men were killed, five were seriously injured, and one escaped unharmed. In 1941 the Kansas legislature authorized acceptance of the massacre site, including Hadsall's house, as a gift to the state from the Pleasanton Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. In 1961 it provided funds for the restoration of the building, and in 1963 the entire property was turned over to the Kansas Historical Society for administration. A museum was established in the upper floor of the building in 1964.The Marais des Cygnes Massacre site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, and as a National Historic Landmark in 1974.

Chieftains baseball team, Tecumseh, Kansas
Date: 1963
This photograph from 1963 shows the Tecumseh Chieftains, a youth baseball team that competed in the Babe Ruth League. Batboy Dick Dodson is seated in front of the players. Behind him, seated in chairs, are (l to r): Bill Reynolds; Ron Hasty; Charles Roberts; Bruce Hill; Phil Shoemaker; Gary Warthen; and, Larry Monroe. Standing are (l to r): John Triggs (coach); Les Witter (coach); Bob Gilbert; Robert Walker; Glen Rice; Ricky Singer; Clarence Payne; Robert Flohrschutz; David Mohler; and, Lee Dodson (manager). The team's record was 15-8. 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.

Clifford W. Beers exhibit at Menninger Museum in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1963
These six black and white photographs show the exhibit about the life and work of Clifford W. Beers, a mental health pioneer. The exhibit opened October 4, 1963, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Board of Menninger Trustees. In 1909 Beers founded the "National Committee for Mental Hygiene", which became Mental Health America, in order to continue the reform for the treatment of the mentally ill. He also started the Clifford Beers Clinic in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1913, which is believed to be the first outpatient mental health clinic in the United States. He was a leader in the field until his retirement in 1939.

Cosmonaut Valery Bykowsky, autographed envelope
Creator: Bykowsky, Valery (Valery Fyodorovich), 1934-2019
Date: July 19, 1963
First Day of Issue cover for cosmonaut Valery Bykowsky is autographed and the post mark date is illegible. First Day of issue Amelia Earhart cover is post marked July 24, 1963 and autographed by Valery Bykowsky. Digitization funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Dr. Otto Kernberg speaking with Mexican students at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
Date: February 1963
This is a photograph of Dr. Otto Kernberg speaking with students from Mexico. He had spent about 20 years in Chile after fleeing from Germany in 1939. Dr. Otto Kernberg joined the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital in 1961, later becoming the director of the hospital. He was the Supervising and Training Analyst of the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis and Director of the Psychotherapy Research Project of the Menninger Foundation.