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.
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 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.
File contains materials comparing and analyzing the differences between the role of Yoruba and Elmira women. Includes research notes, answer scales and criteria, socioeconomic and employment data, family dynamic information, and statistical analyses.
Subseries consists of datasets, research notes, and statistical analyses comparing psychiatric data from the Cornell-Aro Nigerian study to that from Stirling County and the Inuit communities of St. Lawrence Island in Alaska.
File contains research notes, respondent master lists, computer dataset printouts, and tables of statistics relating to respondent psychiatric data and symptoms.
File consists of a letter from Robert Edgerton of the University of California to Jane Murphy regarding publication of her paper "Eskimo and Yoruba women: cross-cultural studies of psychopathology."
File contains reproductions of Gene Sogioka's paintings of life in the Poston Japanese Internment Camp during the Second World War. Also includes a list of titles for the paintings.
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 photos and negatives from the Midtown Study in New York City. This study was amalgamated into the same program as the Stirling County Study late in its progress. It was brought to publication and closure by Alexander and Dorothea Leighton.
File contains photographic slides of people, scenes, and events during the Nigeria studies. Also includes 1 slide of an Inuit person (possibly a respondent from the Alaska study).
Item is a medallion awarded to Alexander Leighton for his film Porpoise Oil's selection for screening at the First International Photographic Exhibition held at Grand Central Palace in New York, April 18-24, 1938.
File contains a report from a workshop in Augusta, Maine regarding the sociocultural factors and psychiatric epidemiology of the Stirling County study.
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.