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These are a variety of handwritten and typed letters, lectures, autographs, news clippings, biographical information, images and sketches, court documents, and other documents related to the history of psychiatry. These documents are housed in four boxes and the folders within are arranged alphabetically by surname or title, and they are included in the larger collection of historic psychiatry material in the Menninger Archives. Authors come from such fields as medicine, religion, prison and other reform and advocacy movements, politics, the military, etc. The documents themselves sometimes provide significant information, and sometimes they were collected because their authors were significant historical figures. Some of the individuals found in Box 1 include James Mark Baldwin, Ludwig Binswanger, Eugen Bleuler, Jean-Martin Charcot, Elizabeth Fry, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Carl Jung. Some of the individuals found in Box 2 include Alfred Adler, Robert Frost, and Washinton Irving. This box also includes a 68-page handwritten notebook by Dr. W.W. Reed entitled "Reminiscenses About the Treatment of the Insane." Some of the individuals found in Box 3 include Amariah Brigham and Frederick van Eeden. This box also includes a correspondence file (1883-1888) on Ellen Kehoe, a patient at the Worcester Lunatic Hospital in Massachusetts, and a series of drawings from the 1920s and 1930s by a Belgian patient suffering from paranoia named Andreas at the Kankakee State Hospital in Illinois. The drawings were donated by Dr. J.B. Gier, formerly of the Topeka Veteran's Administration Hospital, who knew the patient and encouraged his work. Box 4 includes a miscellaneous folder regarding insane asylums and contains legal documents, postcard images, and receipts for services. Languages include English, German, French and Italian, and transcriptions or translations follow some of the documents.
Date: 1751 - 1961
Item Number: 223248
Call Number: Menninger Historic Psychiatry Coll., Miscellaneous, Box 1-4
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 223248
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Authors
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Educators
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Military
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Physicians
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Politicians
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Psychiatrists
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Therapists
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Writers
Collections - Manuscript - Menninger Archives
Collections - Manuscript - Menninger Archives - Historic Psychiatry
Community Life - Community services - Mental health facilities
Date - 1700-1799
Date - 1800-1819
Date - 1854-1860
Date - 1861-1869
Date - 1870s
Date - 1880s
Date - 1890s
Date - 1900s
Date - 1910s
Date - 1920s
Date - 1930s
Date - 1940s
Date - 1950s
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Grant, Ulysses S.
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Hayes, Rutherford B
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Presidents - Johnson, Andrew
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest
Military - Wars - Civil War
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Correspondence
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Poem
People - Notable Kansans - Menninger, Karl Augustus, 1893-1990
People - Persons with disabilities
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - International - England
Places - International - France
Places - International - Germany
Places - International - Switzerland
Places - Other States - New York
Type of Material - Art objects - Original art - Drawings
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Manuscript
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Notebook
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Postcard
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Reminiscences and Memoirs
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