Medium: StillImage
Date: 1960-1962
The Fellows’ Club was formerly Building “A” of the Security Benefit Association Complex. It was built in 1918-1919 and housed the orphaned children of members of the Association. It was…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1969
This building was constructed as a home for the elderly by the Security Benefit Association. Building “C” was opened July 13, 1925. The S.B.A. property was purchased by the Menninger…
Medium: StillImage
Date: July, 1961
A photograph showing John Delci dressed as an Indian Scout. He was a member of the Boy Scouts that participated in the Kansas Centennial. The breechcloth was made by the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1980
The Tower Building is shown in a colored photograph and the interior of the tower clocks are shown in three black and white photographs. Judy Craig and Red Pratt are…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1963
This colored aerial view is of the West Campus a few years after the purchase of the property from the Security Benefit Associaton. The recreation area, the swimming pool and…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1930
The Security Benefit Association, a fraternal organization and a forerunnner of social security, charged the members a nickel a month for hospital care, an orphanage for their children if the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1930
The Security Benefit Association, a fraternal organization that evolved into an insurance organization, charged the members a nickel a month for hospital care, an orphanage for their children if the…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1930
This black and white photograph shows most of the buildings of the Security Benefit Association complex. The S.B.A. was, initially, a fraternal organization that helped fund health care. Members paid…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This fire truck belonging to the Security Benefit Association was housed on the ground floor of Building D.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1928
This photograph shows the vehicles of the Security Benefit Association transportation system. The photograph was donated by Ben Smith who was an employee of the Security Benefit Association and of…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This black and white panoramic photograph shows a road building crew at the Security Benefit Association farm, Topeka, Kansas. There are two horses, fourteen men, and several pieces of equipment.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920s-1930s
These photographs show farm buildings for the Security Benefit Association hospital, orphanage, and old folk’s homes.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This is an advertising card for joining the Security Benefit Association, an early social security system. There was a model hospital for the members who paid a nickel a month…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1965
The excavation for the pool began in 1963 and the pool was finished in 1965. It was used by patients, staff, and students of the Menninger Foundation.
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1928
This is a photograph of farm machinery used by the Security Benefit Association in Topeka, Kansas was donated by Ben Smith who was an employee of the Security Benefit Association…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
These three photographs show two bedrooms and a living room in ‘Building A’ of the Security Benefit orphanage. This building was remodeled in the 1980’s to function as the day…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
This is an advertising card for joining the Security Benefit Association, an early social security system. There was a model hospital for the members who paid a nickel a month…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
These twelve photographs show the hospital built by the Security Benefit Association for its members who paid a nickel a month for hospital care, an orphanage for their children if…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
Three photographs showing the pantry, kitchen, and dining room of the hospital built by the Security Benefit Association. The members paid a nickel a month for hospital care, an orphanage…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
These four photographs show the interior of the hospital built by the Security Benefit Association for its members who paid a nickel a month for hospital care, an orphanage for…
Medium: StillImage
Date: 1920
These three photographs show the ‘state-of-the-art’ x-ray room of the hospital built by the Security Benefit Association for its members who paid a nickel a month for hospital care, an…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1885 and 1889
This black and white photograph shows the tenth Governor of Kansas John Alexander Martin on the steps of the capitol in Topeka, Kansas with state office employees.
Medium: StillImage
Date: December 17, 1883
This is a stereograph with a view from the southeast of Waconda Springs in Mitchell County, Kansas. Once a gathering place for Native Americans, the springs were developed into a…
Medium: StillImage
Date: December 17, 1883
This stereograph shows a close view at the summitt of Waconda Springs in Mitchell County, Kansas. Once a gathering place for Native Americans, the springs were developed into a resort…
Medium: StillImage
Date: Between 1880 and 1885
This stereograph shows Waconda Springs in Mitchell County, Kansas. Once a gathering place for Native Americans, the springs were developed into a resort and later flooded when Glen Elder Reservoir…
