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.
File contains a manuscript titled "The Cherry Carnival" submitted to a competition at Princeton, which later became part of the Isaiah Wilson stories. Also contains correspondence regarding the manuscripts and notes on Hezekiah Williams.
File contains manuscripts of Isaiah Wilson stories, with titles "Fragments of Years," "The Cherry Carnival," "Into thy Hands," "The Russian," and "The Third Cardinal Virtue."
File contains manuscripts for two papers written by Alexander and Dorothea Leighton: "Illustrative examples of applied social science" and "A program for utilizing social science in the development of foreign policy."
File contains letters concerning the book "The Navaho Door" by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton, a 1945 copy of the New York Times Book Review covering Leighton's book "The Governing of Men," a bundle of abstracts from the American Philosophical Society's AGM in 1952, a bulletin on teaching English to the Navajo, and a proposal for a retirement commemoration conference for Alexander Leighton. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's reports and articles: "Pilot study of cultural items in medical diagnosis," "Mental health in Canada: working toward a better future," "Cornell southwestern program: a summary report on five years 1948-1953," and "Interview with the editor of a small town paper."
File contains research notes and manuscript drafts. Also includes some of Alexander Leighton's other articles on illness prevention and community development and rehabilitation.
File contains pages 201 - 471 of a transcription of Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton's interview with Bill Sage, edited and annotated by Joyce Griffen.
File contains pages 1 - 200 of a transcription of Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton's interview with Bill Sage, edited and annotated by Joyce Griffen.
File contains a collection of family history accounts and journal entries. Also contains a script for Alexander Leighton's keynote address titled "Social science and psychiatric epidemiology: a difficult relationship," and a script for Dorothea Leighton's address titled "Anthropologist by accident."
File contains a manuscript for an article, and related correspondence. An attached note says that the handwritten version of the article was titled "Boadecia the bold."
File contains a manuscript for an article on the use of the atomic bomb during World War II. Also includes relevant newspaper clippings and correspondence.
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