The Tower Building, Menninger West Campus in Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1964
Level of Description: Folder
Material Type: Photograph
Call Number:
Menninger Foundation Photographic Collection, Box 5, #39
Unit ID: 222463
Summary: Photographs of offices, museum displays housed in the Menninger Foundation Tower Building.
Summary: These photographs are from the first floor of the Tower Building showing Dr. Karl Menninger's office and several exhibit rooms. Security Benefit Company built a hospital, an orphanage and school, a home for the elderly and a model farm in Topeka, Kansas. Menninger purchased the facilities and used the buildings, fitting them to the needs of a psychiatric facility. The Tower building had been the hospital and was converted into offices and the museum.
Space Required/Quantity: [Not stated]
Title (Main title): The Tower Building, Menninger West Campus in Topeka, Kansas
Scope and Content
Portions of Collection Separately Described:
- Dr. Karl Menninger's office in the Tower building.
- Dr. Karl Menninger's office in the Tower building.
- The auditorium in the Tower building with Kansas University art displayed.
- The collection of old medical equipment from the Tower building.
- The Indian Room in the Tower building, looking northwest.
- The Indian Room in the Tower building, looking west. Dr. Karl was very interested in the Native American culture.
- The Menninger family room display in the Tower building.
- The rare book room of the Tower Building with the bust of Sigmund Freud as it appeared in 1964.
- The west wing of the first floor of the Tower building showing a display of Anna Freud photographs with a bust of Freud in the foreground.
Portions of Collection Not Separately Described:
- The rare book room of the Tower Building with the bust of Sigmund Freud as it appeared in 1964.
- The west wing of the first floor of the Tower building showing a display of Anna Freud photographs with a bust of Freud in the foreground.
- Dr. Karl Menninger's office in the Tower building.
- Dr. Karl Menninger's office in the Tower building.
- The Indian Room in the Tower building, looking west. Dr. Karl was very interested in the Native American culture.
- The Indian Room in the Tower building, looking northwest.
- The collection of old medical equipment from the Tower building.
- The auditorium in the Tower building with Kansas University art displayed.
- The Menninger family room display in the Tower building.
Locators:
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| 118-14-03-07 |
Index Terms
Subjects
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Menninger Foundation
Museum exhibits
