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Menninger Collecting Project

Creator: Menninger Foundation Archives. Individual Affiliates

Date: 1908 - 2002

Level of Description: Coll./Record Group

Material Type: Manuscripts

Call Number: Unavailable

Unit ID: 45898

Restrictions: None

Abstract: Collection consists of information from various individuals associated with the Menninger Clinic and Foundation of Topeka, Kansas. Materials were donated by colleagues and staff from the Menninger Clinic. The materials include staff newsletters, handbooks and manuals, correspondence, biographical information, photographs, histories about the clinic, etc.

Space Required/Quantity: 3.00 cubic feet

Title (Main title): Menninger Collecting Project

Scope and Content

Locators:

Locator Contents
108-06-01-06  Menninger Foundation timeline; 2000 Alumni directory; clippings, articles, and other historical materials, c1947-1988 
108-07-04-04  Menninger Foundation materials: Winter Wives Club pamphlets, 1947-56 TPR, July 30, 1951 (staff newsletter) 
108-07-04-05  Letters from Dr. Karl Menninger, 1973-1988; photographs; "Some Recollections of the State Hospitals Dilemma in 1948 Compared with the 1976 Dilemma in Corrections" by Dr. Karl Menninger; "The Menninger Foundation School of Psychiatry."; Acq. 2002-116.01 handwritten KAM notes for Jerry Johnson, advertisement for Paul Pruyser's book, An Appreciation of Karl Menninger's Books, Center for Applied Behavioral Sciences newsletter The Center, February, 1979; Acq. 2002-243.01 Reprint of KAM's Hope lecture, WCM all staff memo (#17, June 15, 1966); Acq. 2002-037.01 Herbert Klemmer In Memoriam booklet, Jo Ann Klemmer manuscript, Topeka, Vienna on the Kaw: the early years. 
108-08-05-07  History of Menninger manuscript. Includes slides. 
108-10-02-01 to 108-10-02-02  Printed materials, including staff newsletters, manuals, and handbooks; conference/workshop materials; land title abstracts, etc., c1956-2002 
144-02-05-07  Bio of Dr. Charles Wellso who was a physician at the Menninger Foundation 

Related Records or Collections

Associated materials: Associated materials in the Photographs collections.

Related materials: Menninger Collection, manuscripts collection no. 786.

Index Terms

Subjects

    Menninger Clinic -- History
    Menninger Foundation -- History
    Menninger, Karl A. (Karl Augustus), 1893-1990
    Menninger, William Claire, 1899-1966
    Wellso, Charles George
    Psychiatric clinics -- Kansas -- Topeka
    Psychiatry -- Kansas
    Psychoanalysis -- Kansas

Creators and Contributors

    Kansas State Historical Society. Library and Archives Division

Agency Classification:

    Organizations/Corporations. Menninger Foundation Archives. Menninger Foundation Corporate Records. Individual Affiliates.

Additional Information for Researchers

Restrictions: None

Ownership/Custodial Hist.: The materials in this collection were gathered by the Kansas Historical Society when it was uncertain whether the Menninger institutional archives would remain in Kansas or move with the clinic to Houston, Texas.