50th reunion of the 1933 McPherson College graduating class in McPherson, Kansas
Date: 1983
This is a photograph showing the 50th reunion of the 1933 McPherson College graduating class in McPherson, Kansas. People in the photograph are identified as Eber Tice, Harvey Shank, Pauline Dell Bell, George Zinn, Ellen Steinberg Truhlar, Vernon Rhoades, Grace Heckman Gottman, Esther Brown Enberg, Dorothy Dresher Richards, Donard Dresher, Florence Dresher Wachholtz, Ruth Harms Nigh, Pearl Walker Kelly, Raymond Buskirk, Delbert Kelly, Ward Williams, and Lloyd Larsen.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company's circus loading
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1985
This photograph shows the Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company intermodal transportation services. The description for this photograph called this type of loading of trailers "circus loading." It is a term used to describe an older method of loading highway trailers on flatcars (TOFC), whereby a tractor backs the trailer up to a ramp placed at one end of a cut of cars. Circus loading requires bridge plates at each end of all cars to enable the trailer and tractor to pass from car to car.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggy-back trailer
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1985
This photograph shows a side view of an Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company piggy-back truck trailer, Z20009.

Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company's piggy-back trailer
Creator: Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company
Date: Between 1950 and 1985
This photograph shows an example of a Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe Railway Company truck trailer logo, the four feather herald. It has the traditional logo with four feather like portions that contain the words truck rail service, highway, piggy-back, and container. It is part of the ATSF Railway Company intermodal services.

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.

Construction of the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Date: May 26, 1983
Photograph showing construction on the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas.

Construction on the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Date: April 26, 1983
A photograph showing construction on the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas.

Construction on the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Date: August 01, 1983
A photograph showing construction on the Kansas State Historical Society's museum. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Avenue in Topeka, Kansas.

Construction scene at the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Date: January 14, 1983
A photograph showing construction at the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas.

DS&O Rural Electric Cooperative's employees practicing job safety
Date: September 1983
This is a photograph showing DS&O Rural Electric Cooperative's employees practicing job safety. DS&O Electric Cooperative was established during the Great Depression as part of the federal recovery effort to bring the advantages and economic stimulus of electric power to rural Kansas. In 1991, Smoky Valley Electric Cooperative in Lindsborg, Kansas, merged with DS&O, adding to the Cooperative's coverage area and member base. DS&O Rural Electrical Cooperative's office is located in Solomon, Kansas. It was named DS&O because members were from Dickinson, Saline, and Ottawa counties.

Governor John Carlin and Elizabeth Dole in Wichita, Kansas
Date: November 17, 1983
This is a photograph showing Governor John Carlin and Elizabeth Dole, Secretary of Transportation, cutting the ribbon at the Wichita Traffic Control Tower in Wichita, Kansas.

Governor John William Carlin and United States President Ronald Reagan
Creator: White House (Washington, D.C.)
Date: August 15, 1983
Here are three photographs showing Kansas Governor John William Carlin meeting with United States President Ronald Reagan, Vice President George H. W. Bush and other political officials in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C.

Governor John William Carlin and Vice President George H. W. Bush
Creator: White House (Washington, D.C.)
Date: July 30, 1983
This is a photograph showing Kansas Governor John William Carlin shaking hands with Vice President George H. W. Bush.

Governor John William Carlin with members of the United Auto Workers
Date: Between 1983 and 1984
This is a photograph showing Governor John William Carlin with a group of United Auto Workers.

Headache research at the Menninger Clinic, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1983
Patricia Solbach, PhD., and Joseph Sargent, MD, conducted the Headache Research Project. The Menninger Clinic is dedicated to mental-health treatment, education, research, and prevention. Many landmark research projects were developed at the clinic.

Hesston annual report
Creator: Hesston Corporation
Date: 1983
This annual report from the Hesston Corporation includes: financial highlights of the company and financial news to and from stockholders and employees. This publication funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission through the Kansas State Historical Records Advisory Board.

Installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue, Topeka, Kansas
Date: September 30, 1983
Photographs showing the installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue in Topeka, Kansas. One photograph shows Robert Cuevas, Ruth Snell, Mike Snell, and Ruth Sherrer at the site of the installation. The statue is at the Kansas State Historical Society, 6425 SW 6th Ave.

Installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue, Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: September 30, 1983
This is a photograph of the installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue at the museum in Topeka, Kansas. The statue was created by native Kansan Lumen Martin Winter. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.

Installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue at the museum in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: September 30, 1983
This is a photograph of the installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue at the museum in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.

Installation of "The Great White Buffalo" statue in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society
Date: September 30, 1983
This is a photograph of "The Great White Buffalo" statue taken after its installation at the museum in Topeka, Kansas. The museum is located at 6425 SW 6th Ave.

Installing the Great White Buffalo statue at the Kansas State Historical Society
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division
Date: September 30, 1983
A photograph showing the installation of the Great White Buffalo statue at the Kansas State Historical Society's museum in Topeka, Kansas. It is in a reflecting basin at the entrance of the Kansas Museum of History.

Irvin Rosen, Ph.D.
Creator: Richardson, Earl
Date: July 22, 1983
Irvin Rosen, Ph.D. is shown speaking at Dr. Karl Menninger's 90th birthday. The event was held on the Menninger West Campus in Topeka, Kansas.

Joe Henry Engle
Date: Between 1981 and 1985
A portrait of astronaut Joe Henry Engle, of Chapman, Kansas, who commanded the second Space Shuttle "Columbia" mission in 1981 and a Space Shuttle "Discovery" mission in 1985. Born August 26, 1932 in Dickinson County, Kansas, Engle graduated from the University of Kansas in 1956.

John Michael (Mike) Hayden
Date: January 1983
A photograph of Mike Hayden, a Republican, being sworn in as speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives by Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Alfred Schrader. Hayden represented District 120, Rawlins County, Kansas. Also, in the photograph is Fred Weaver, minority leader (seated on the left) and Joe Hoagland, majority leader (seated on the right). Hayden was born in Atwood Kansas, and received his bachelor's degree in wildlife conservation from Kansas State University and a master's degree in biology from Fort Hays State University. During the Vietnam War, he was an infantry company commander in the U.S. Army. Hayden spent 13 months in Vietnam, where he received the Soldier's Medal, two bronze Stars, and the Army Commendation Medal. He began his career in public service as a state representative, serving from 1972 to 1986. In 1983 and 1985, he was elected speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives. Hayden was elected Kansas Governor in 1986. After leaving office in 1991, President George Herbert Walker Bush named Hayden to be the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Fish and Wildlife. From 1993 to 2001, Hayden served as President and CEO of the American Sportfishing Association. In 2002, he returned to Kansas to accept a position as Secretary of Wildlife and Parks.

Kansas capitol in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Kansas State Historical Society. Photo Lab
Date: July 18, 1983
Here are four photographs showing renovation on the capitol and the cottonwood tree on the grounds in Topeka, Kansas.