Archives Catalogue

Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

MS-13-86
Fonds
1837-2020, predominant 1904-2008

Fonds contains records created and collected primarily by Alexander H. Leighton, with some by Jane Leighton Murphy. Documents span from Leighton's studies at Princeton, Cambridge, and Johns Hopkins univerities, through his government employment in World War II, and his teaching career at Cornell, Dalhousie, and Harvard. The majority of records are related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women, both based in Nigeria, and the Stirling County Study, based in Nova Scotia. Record types include correspondence, manuscripts, grant applications, reports, photographs and slides, medical and academic records, method and guidebooks, reviews, offprints and publications, teaching and course materials, and surveys and interview transcripts.

A sous-fonds contains records documenting the migration of Alexander Leighton's parents from Ireland to the United States and their subsequent life in Philadelphia. The sous-fonds contains extensive correspondence between extended family members over the course of a century, as well as photographs, diaries, wills, family trees, memoirs, and Alexander Leighton's personal correspondence.

Murphy, Jane Leighton

Guttman scale for mental health and acculturation level analysis

MS-13-86, Box 9, Folder 1
File
[1966?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains printouts of computer code, graphs comparing the relationship between mental health and acculturation, and a study by Frederic Ilfeld titled "Acculturation levels and mental health of 120 educated Yoruba women."

Reliability analysis between psychiatrists

MS-13-86, Box 10, Folder 14
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an appendix (Appendix F) outlining procedures in comparing psychiatric evaluators' thought processes and conclusions surrounding the mental health of respondents of the Cornell-Aro study. File also includes information on analysis coding and a chart outlining mental health symptom statistics.

Robert Collis Jr.'s thesis materials

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 6
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of maps, graphs, and charts taken from Collis Jr.'s thesis outlining physical and mental health correlations.

Reliability of data on literacy in Yoruba among men

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 9
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a memo from Jane Murphy to Cornell staff regarding an analysis of the reliability of literacy data among male Yoruba study subjects and its effects on future analysis.

Inkeles and Murphy data comparisons

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 16
File
1969 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a computer printout dataset of frequency distribution comparison between Jane Murphy's and Alex Inkeles' data. Also includes copies of several of Inkeles' published articles: "The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization," "The OM scale: a comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity," "Some social psychological effects and noneffects of literacy in a new nation," "The modernization of man," and "Making men modern: on the causes and consequences of individual change in six developing countries."

Eskimo and Yoruba case vignettes for Alexander Leighton's APA paper on paranoid reaction

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 16
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of individual psychiatric respondent case summaries from the Nigerian and Alaskan studies.

An assessment of mental health patterns in a Nigerian factory: the Nigerian Tobacco Co. study / by Karin Himmelstrand

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 21
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Two drafts of Himmelstrand's study analyzing the mental health of Nigerian factory workers.

The changing image of American women: career orientation and neo-traditional roles / by John E. Hudson

MS-13-86, Box 15, Folder 24
File
1956 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a copy of Hudson's study and a progress report and copy of the survey for Williams' study "Social and cultural factors affecting role-conflict and adjustment among American women: a pilot investigation." Also includes a copy of the Cornell-Aro study social data questionnaire and a computer dataset printout of Yoruba respondents.

Gerald Klerman's research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 8
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 7 research papers written by Gerald Klerman when he was a student of Alexander Leighton's.

Stirling report #150 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — third annual report

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 17
Item
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's third annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #97 - Handbook for field workers: Stirling County project

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 19
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a handbook for field researches in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #101 - Observations on methodology in community research

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 21
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a report on research methodology in the Stirling County study, written by Seymour Parker, Charles Hughes, and Robert Rapoport.

Stirling report #464 - Chapter v : how sick is sick?

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 6
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for a chapter in a book about the Stirling County study.

NSP 571 - Canada, Sweden, Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 9
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #228 - Fairhaven : A self-sufficient English-speaking village

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 11
File
[1950?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #240 - Stirling County place names

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 18
File
1952

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

The beaver studies

Series
1930 - 1939

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains progress reports, publications, and correspondence relating to Alexander Leighton's beaver studies.

Butler, John

MS-13-86, Box 35, Folder 22
File
1954 - 1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about John Butler. Also contains a report on program fellowship.

Campbell, Coline

MS-13-86, Box 36, Folder 5
File
1979 - 2011

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Coline Campbell. Also includes a National Health Scientist progress report by Alexander Leighton.

Kern, Joseph

MS-13-86, Box 46, Folder 10
File
1966 - 2008

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Joseph Kern. Also includes the report "Theory and practice in a program of social change," and materials for a psychology course.

Industrial psychiatrist fellowships: proposals

MS-13-86, Box 63, Folder 16
File
1948 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence regarding internships and fellowships. Also includes research project progress reports and committee meeting minutes.

Toshio Yatsushiro

MS-13-86, Box 70, Folder 13
File
1938 - 1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains several research proposals and progress reports by Toshio Yatsushiro.

Cornell program in social anthropology

MS-13-86, Box 64, Folder 9
File
1947 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a pamphlet on Cornell University's studies in Culture and Applied Sciences. Also includes proposals and progress reports on the program. Also contains correspondence about and teaching materials for the program.

Talks, reports, and studies

Series
1947 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains scripts for various lectures and talks. Also includes study proposals and final reports, and handbooks for study workers.

Social psychiatry final report

MS-13-86, Box 66, Folder 12
File
1965 - 1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a pamphlet titled "Cornell program in social psychiatry: final report, 1965-66."

Report on summer resurvey

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 8
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on the 1962 summer resurvey of the Stirling County Study.

Cornell-Digby Development Project

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains two drafts of a report or proposal for the Cornell-Digby Development Project.

Social variables in the Stirling County Study

MS-13-86, Box 67, Folder 22
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a document titled "Further thoughts on the history of social variables in the Stirling Study and explanation of the social science questionnaires employed in the focus areas, 1968-70."

Published articles by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 4
File
1949 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains 3 articles written by Alexander H. Leighton: "Mental health and the problem of cooperation between races and between nations," "Psychiatry and the health of the public," and "Reflections of a tender-minded radical."

Office of War Information, report 25 : Japanese behavior patterns

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 7
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a restricted report by Ruth Benedict on Japanese behaviour patterns, relevant to Alexander Leighton's work in 1940 - 1946.

Psychological tensions in Japan

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 15
File
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of reports on Japanese psychology during World War II, titled "The word and the deed" and "Current psychological and social tensions in Japan."

Report no. 22 : A Japanese metropolitan daily : Tokyo Mainichi Shimbun

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 14
Item
1945

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a restricted report outlining the implications of how news is presented to the public in a popular Japanese newspaper, a key means of disseminating domestic propaganda.

Monthly report on the Colorado River War Relocation Center for evacuated Japanese / by A.H. Leighton, Lt. (MC) USNR

Item
April 14, 1943

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a copt of a restricted report that Dorothea sent to his mother, Gertrude, at Alexander's request.

Harvard School of Public Health department development

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 7
File
1966 - 1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains memoranda, reports, and proposals related to the development of the Behavioral Science Department of the Harvard School of Public Health.

Bureau of Sociological Research

MS-13-86, Box 98, Folder 10
File
1951

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains information on the Bureau of Sociological Research, including personnel lists and structural features. Also includes a report on the Bureau.

McNickle, D'Arcy

MS-13-86, Box 50, Folder 4
File
1942 - 1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about D'Arcy McNickle. Also contains a report titled "Comments on the tentative statement of policy of the war relocation authority, May 29, 1942." Also contains a photocopied newspaper obituary for D'Arcy McNickle.

Thomas, William L. "Bill"

MS-13-86, Box 57, Folder 16
File
1972 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about William L. "Bill" Thomas. Also contains "Index to the 24 sites selected for air photo interpretation study of the human aspects of the use of herbicides in south Vietnam."

Tyler, Ralph W.

MS-13-86, Box 58, Folder 7
File
1954 - 1964

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Ralph W. Tyler. Also includes progress reports, curricula vitae, and manuscripts.

Financial report - work sheets

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 3
File
1963 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains expense lists and financial documents and reports for the Social Science Research Council regarding the Role of Women study.

A survey of general physicians : manual for the psychiatric interview and use of the summary sheet : the Stirling County Study / Jane M. Murphy, PhD

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 2
File
1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File includes copies of "A Survey of General Physicians : Manual for Participating General Practitioners" and "Appendix A : Nomenclature and Classification in the Stirling County Study."

Stirling report #329 — The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — sixth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 1
Item
June 30, 1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's sixth annual report on the Stirling County study.

The Stirling County Study : A research program in social factors related to psychiatric health — eighth annual report

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 3
Item
June 30, 1958

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is Alexander Leighton's eighth annual report on the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #182 - "Tooling-up" HOS for Stirling measurement

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 13
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim report on symptom data and measurement in the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #183 - Planning conference

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 12
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on a planning conference for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #362 - Field report on Stirling County Study field work, 1954, by Frank W. Young

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 7
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on how to delineate the sub-groups for the Stirling County Study.

Stirling report #452

MS-13-86, Box 28, Folder 8
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report on the frame of reference for the Stirling County study.

The evolution of a rural mental health center / by D. Shapiro, and a research proposal by Alexander Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 10
File
1971

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a letter and research proposal for "Control and prevention of psychiatric disorders in community populations" by Alexander Leighton, and a report by D. Shapiro.

Stirling report #A - A brief outline, 1956

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 11
File
1956

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a report outlining the purpose and methods of the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #54 - Stirling County Study field manual

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 15
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research manual for field work for the Stirling County Study. The manual indicates that researchers could keep one copy of their field notes and reports for their personal or university's files and that all others remained the property of Cornell University.

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