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

Journey to Japan, complete

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 6
File
1945 - 2015

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an apparently complete collection of Alexander Leighton's "Journey to Japan" journal entries.

Vietnam

MS-13-86, Box 66, Folder 1
File
1971 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, newspaper clippings, conference schedules, and contact lists relating to a study on chemical herbicide and pesticide use in Vietnam. Also contains 4 colour postcards and 3 photos : b&w; 5 x 7 in.

Miscellaneous photos

Series
1941 - 2000

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs from personal trips and other studies. Also includes photos of various colleagues and acquaintances.

Gordon Mason

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 16
File
2000

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy with Gordon Mason.

Meeting of psychiatrists for interviewing doctors

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 22
File
1995

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos from meetings of psychiatrists.

Interviewer training

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 17
File
1994

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs from interviewer training in June 1994 for the Stirling County Study.

Second field study recruitment

MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 13
File
1993

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos from a meeting of the second round of field study recruitment.

First field staff training

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 25
File
1993

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos from field staff training from May 24 - 28, 1993.

Dalhousie psychiatric program photos

Series
1970 - 1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains photos of participants of the "Seminar on Wheels" program, designed to give students field experience in psychiatric epidemiology.

Lynn, Freda

MS-13-86, Box 48, Folder 10
File
1972 - 1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Freda Lynn. Also contains 2 photos : colour; 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 in.

Stirling County winter 1992 census

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 31
File
1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs from the 1992 winter census of Stirling County.

Dr. Tswang's visit to Stirling County

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 32
File
[1992?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of Dr. Tswang and his wife (?) on their visit to Stirling County in 1992.

Seminar on Wheels, 1991

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 14
File
1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos and negatives from the 1992 session of the "Seminar on Wheels" program training Dalhousie psychiatry students in Stirling County.

Harvard-Dalhousie Research Project, continued

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 11
File
1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos from the 1992 portion of the Harvard-Dalhousie Research Project in Stirling County. Also contains a list of supervisors and interviewers working on the project.

Dalhousie seminar on wheels

MS-13-86, Box 64, Folder 8
File
1984 - 1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains discussion outlines, lecture schedules, to-do lists, reading lists, bibliographies, agendas, memoranda and correspondence regarding the "seminar on wheels" lecture series. Also includes 10 photos : colour; 4 x 6 in and smaller.

Seminar on Wheels, 1992

MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 10
File
1992

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of participants of the 1992 Seminar on Wheels program.

Dr. Marc-Adelard Tremblay

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 23
File
1991

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of Dr. Marc-Adelard Tremblay, PhD from Stirling County Study in 1950s.

Harvard-Dalhousie Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 14
File
1991

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of researchers from the joint Harvard-Dalhousie project, and locations visited.

Gessain, Monique and Robert

MS-13-86, Box 41, Folder 13
File
1963 - 1988

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Robert and Monique Gessain. Also contains lecturer registration forms, a manuscript for "Report on the sciences of man: can psychiatry travel?," a booklet titled "Nicolas et Antoine en Nouvelle Ecosse," and 6 photos : 4 b&w and 2 colour; 5 x 7 1/2 in and smaller.

Jamieson, Neil and Ginny

MS-13-86, Box 45, Folder 8
File
1972 - 1987

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Neil Jamieson. Also includes 2 photos : colour; 4 3/4 x 3 1/2 in.

Matsumoto, Yashiharu Scott "Scotty"

MS-13-86, Box 49, Folder 11
File
1946 - 1980

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Yashiharu Scott "Scotty" Matsumoto. Also includes 10 photos : b&w; 2 x 2 in. Also includes the article "Patient rapport in Hiroshima" from the American Journal of Nursing.

Galbraith, Kenneth

MS-13-86, Box 41, Folder 5
File
1952 - 1979

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Kenneth Galbraith. Also includes photocopies of newspaper clippings and a photocopied obituary. Also includes invitations and programs for events at the Abbie J. Lane Memorial Hospital. Includes 1 photo of Kenneth Galbraith : b&w; 7 3/4 x 10in.

Seminar on Wheels

MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 9
File
[1970 - 1979?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs from one of Dalhousie's "Seminar on Wheels" series for students working on psychiatric epidemiology field experience.

Negatives from the 1970s Vietnam study

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 5
File
[1970 - 1979?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains strips of negatives from Alexander Leighton's study in Vietnam in the 1970s.

Photos from Alexander Leighton's Harvard retirement dinner

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 9
File
1975

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of Alexander Leighton's 1975 Harvard retirement dinner.

Stirling County colleagues, winter 1969 - 1970

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 27
File
1969 - 1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of Stirling County Study colleagues from 1969 - 1970.

1970 Re-sample focus areas

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 30
File
1970

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographic negatives of focus areas (especially behavioural settings) for the 1970 re-sample of the Stirling County Study.

Some aspects of technological change in relation to socio-cultural organization and personality patterning / by Albert Erha Imohiosen

MS-13-86, Box 12, Folder 8
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a research proposal for the project along with filled social data questionnaires and semantic differentials questionnaires. Also contains 8 photographs of Nigerian individuals.

Survey of Freeport

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 18
File
1969

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographic negatives from the 1969 survey of the Stirling County Study.

Mrs. Churchill of Freeport

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 24
File
1969

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Fie consists of a photo of Mrs. Churchill of Freeport, who gave overnight accommodation for Stirling Study workers.

Photographs from Cornell United Religious Works (CURW) in Stirling County

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 7
File
1965 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of the Cornell United Religious Works program in Stirling County in the 1960s.

Stirling County colleagues

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 19
File
1966

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of Stirling County staff from 1966.

Honigmann, John J.

MS-13-86, Box 44, Folder 22
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about John J. Honigmann. Also includes 2 black and white photographic negatives.

Study on the Role of Women

MS-13-86, Box 23, Folder 10 and MS-13-86, Box 24, Folder 1
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photos of scenes and study respondents in Nigerian villages.

Photos of Nigeria from the 1961 Cornell-Aro study and the 1963 Role of Women study

Subseries
1959 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of photographs taken during the 1961 and 1963 Nigerian studies. Subjects including Nigerian residents and study respondents, landscapes, traditional ceremonies and practices, village scenes, portraits, activities, and animals.

Unidentified portraits

MS-13-86, Box 22, Folder 3
File
[1961-1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains portrait photos of unidentified Nigerian locals.

Miscellaneous portraits

MS-13-86, Box 22, Folder 2
File
1961 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains miscellaneous portrait photos.

Photos from 1963 sabbatical in France

MS-13-86, Box 25, Folder 8
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of people, buildings, and scenery in Brittany in 1963. Alexander Leighton was possibly there for a sabbatical. A psychiatric study similar to the Stirling County Study had apparently been completed in the region.

Rennie, Thomas A. C.

MS-13-86, Box 53, Folder 10
File
1948 - 1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains correspondence with or about Thomas A. C. Rennie. Also contains an obituary cut from a newspaper, telephone correspondence transcriptions, a progress report for the Yorkville Community Mental Health Research Project, and 1 photo : b&w; 3 x 3 3/4 in.

Photos from personal trip to France