Medium: StillImage
Date: 1994
These black and white photographs show John Zimmerman and Jim Olliso working to beautify the Menninger campus. This is considered an important part of the milieu therapy for promoting mental…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1951-1991
After four years of training in psychiatry, the Menninger psychiatric residents put on a show spoofing the program, the clinic, the faculty, psychiatric and psychoanalytic theory and the whole world.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: May 1978
This photograph is of the first graduating class of the two year Family therapy Training Program for Community Practitioners at the Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kansas. It shows the faculty and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: December 1945
This photograph shows World War II soldiers eating at the Fred Harvey military dining room in Union Station, Los Angeles, California. More than 73,000 meals were served to military personnel…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1941 and 1945
This is a photograph of Vernon W. Jackson with three friends riding camels in Africa during World War II. Vernon was raised by his aunt Victoria Murdoch-Hightower in Wichita, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1941 and 1945
This is a photograph of Vernon W. Jackson wearing his U. S. Army uniform. He was raised by his aunt Victoria Murdoch-Hightower in Wichita, Kansas. Jackson was a member of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1941
A composite photograph showing members of the 1941 spring class of Williams Institute of Mortuary Science located in Kansas City, Kansas. Xavia Hightower Howard, from Wichita, Kansas, was a member…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1980 and 1985
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard at an awards banquet. Xavia was born in 1916 and lived in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral Home.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 2006
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard cutting a cake on her 90th birthday with her daughter Frankie Mason looking on. Xavia was born in 1916 and lived in Wichita, Kansas.…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1980 and 1985
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard who was born in 1916 and lived in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral Home. In 1941, Xavia graduated…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1980 and 1985
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard speaking to an unidentified group. Xavia was born in 1916 and lived in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1980 and 1985
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard who was born in 1916 and lived in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral Home. In 1941, Xavia graduated…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1984
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard who was born in 1916 and lived in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral Home. In 1941, Xavia graduated…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1941
A photograph of Xavia Hightower Howard possibly taken when she graduated from Williams Institute of Mortuary Science, Kansas City, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral Home…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1998 and 2000
A portrait of Frank and Xavia Hightower Howard. They were married in 1942 and lived in Wichita, Kansas. Her mother Victoria Murdoch-Hightower owned and operated Citizens Funeral Home. After her…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1930 and 1935
A portrait of Victoria Murdoch-Hightower. Victoria was born in 1888 and later married Rufus Hightower, a police officer, in the 1920s. He died in the line of duty, and after…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1915 and 1920
A portrait of Victoria Murdoch-Hightower who was born in 1888. She married Rufus Hightower, a police officer, in the 1920s. He died in the line of duty, and after his…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1942 and 1945
This is a portrait of Frank Howard, who was married to Xavia Earline Hightower-Howard. She was the first female African-American licensed funeral director and embalmer, and she owned the Citizens…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1945 and 1950
This photograph shows the interior of the Citizens Funeral Home in Wichita, Kansas. The business was originally purchased and owned by Victoria Murdoch-Hightower who was the first African-American funeral director…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1990
These three black and white photographs show some of the work done by the facilities management staff when the Menninger Clinic was at the West Campus, Topeka, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1998
This interior view of Thornlea Commons, the dining hall for Menninger staff and patients when located in Topeka, Kansas shows an art exhibit by Alice Sabitini. The white brick walls…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1898
This composite photograph, copied from the “History of the Spanish American War” by Marcus J. Wright, shows the commissioned officers of the Twenty-Third Kansas Volunteer Infantry during the Spanish-American War.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1891 and 1895
A portrait of Myrnice Crysler posed in a baby carriage. The portrait was taken in White City, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1888 and 1890
A portrait of Malcom Davis. The portrait was taken in Arkansas City, Kansas.
Medium: StillImage
Date: June 20, 1898
A portrait of Ernest Mourning taken at age 16. The portrait was taken in Blue Mound, Kansas.
