Item is a typed set of notes about "The Screening of Psychoneurotics in the Army: Technical Development of Tests," chapter 13 of The American Soldier, Volume IV.
Item consists of meeting minutes for sessions at Cornell regarding further developments and programming of the Stirling County studies. Includes the following participants: C. Arensberg, T. Burling, J. Butler, D. Darling, E. Day, E. Devereaux, R. Federer, R. Johnson, A. Leighton, D. Leighton, R. MacLeod, A. Macmillan, W. Magill, N. Moore, M. Opler, S. Parker, R. Polson, E. Rapoport, S. Richardson, A. Tremblay, J. Tyhurst, M. Tumin, D. Vernon, and W. Whyte.
Item consists of a hardcover bound volume titled "The Cornell program in social psychiatry: 1st annual report, 1959." Includes updates on the Stirling County Study, the Midtown Study, and other pilot studies.
Item is a handwritten report with a preface attributing a large portion of the material "from a preliminary report on psychological testing prepared by Dr. Frank Freeman of Cornell University."
Item is a typed manuscript (lightly annotated and with a handwritten title page) outlining a preliminary research plan in response to the question: "Are there patterns of society and culture that predispose or produce neuroses and psychoses in the constituent members?"
Item is a typed manuscript by Alexander Leighton describing his 1936 summer project filming a recreation of a traditional Digby County Mi'kmaq porpoise hunt and the subsequent rendering of the blubber into oil. The manuscript was commissioned by the magazine Movie Makers.
Item is a copy of the magazine featuring an article about the ten best films of 1937 as chosen by the Movie Makers staff in which Alexander Leighton's "Porpoise Oil" received an honorable mention.
Item is a letter written to his father from Alexander Leighton during his residency at Johns Hopkins. The letter addresses his sister Gertrude's mental health and details about equipment for a film project.
File contains correspondence with Adolf Meyer. Also includes summaries of recording instruments, synopses of psychiatric cases, a transcript of "Mental health film," and transcripts of conferences and conversations.
Item consists of correspondence related to the publication of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy's manuscript. Includes correspondence between Leighton and TImothy Selnes, Ian Jeffers, and Richard Barling.
File contains letters written between friends and colleagues Theodore Lidz and Alexander Leighton, beginning during the Second World War and continuing until 1951.
File contains a series of letters between Arthur Gale and Alexander Leighton regarding his film "Porpoise Oil." The correspondence includes an announcement of its inclusion as an Honorable Mention by Movie Makers staff in the selection of the Ten Best Non-theatrical Films of 1937, as well as letters about an article Gale commissioned from Leighton about the making of his film. There is also correspondence from 1941 with James Moore at The Amateur Cinema League regarding Alexander Leighton's possible submission of his film about Navajo life, "Work for your Own," for a contest in the Special Class.