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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

Herring, Pendleton (1942 - 1968)

File contains correspondence with or about Pendleton Herring. Also includes a program for the Annual Conference of the American Society for Public Administration, information on the Social Sciences Research Council, a questionnaire submitted by the Select Committee of the House of Representatives, and a rail service schedule.

Taft, Donald R.

File contains correspondence with or about Donald R. Taft. Also contains a questionnaire titled "Questions pertaining chiefly to the trials of war criminals."

Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project in the Western Region, Nigeria (1961) and the Study on the Role of Women (1963)

Series is comprised of materials related to the 1961 Cornell-Aro Research Project in the Western Region and the 1963 Study on the Role of Women. In the Cornell-Aro study, modeled on the Stirling County Study, Leighton’s team analyze the mental health trends of Nigerians living in both major cities and small rural villages via interviews, surveys, and observations. The Role of Women study may possibly be considered a ‘sub-study’ of the Cornell-Aro study, as it uses much of the same research material supplemented by new data. Materials present include correspondence, memoranda, datasets, research notes, fieldnotes reports, speeches, photographs, forms, applications, surveys and questionnaires, medical documents, affiliated studies, and comparative analyses.

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

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.

Drafts of social data and psychiatric questionnaires for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

File contains early drafts of the community respondent social data and psychiatric questionnaires and a survery from Aro Hospital concerning displaced and detribalised people. Also contains a memo justifying the questions used and an appendix containing a blank copy of the final draft of the questionnaire.

Doerr/Nangeroni, Alice L.

File contains correspondence with or about Alice Doerr/Nangeroni. Also contains manuscripts for the articles "Community agency survey - report on field work, summer, 1957" and "Overall plan for analysis: clinic-community survey." Also includes a copy of the Digby medical practice survey and a field work schedule.

Algada village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Agada. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Oluwo village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. File includes one hand-drawn map of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Ashipa village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ashipa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Shodeke village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Shodeke. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Opeji village data

File contains social and historical research notes, field notes, and population medical survey results for the village of Opeji. File includes four hand-drawn maps of the village.

Brunetti, Pier M. / Pierre-Marie

File contains correspondence with or about Pier M. Brunetti. Also includes activity reports, the Vaucluse Study health questionnaire and summary, and a copy of Brunetti's article "Are we fostering health?: Interdisciplinary considerations on the present ecologic and human crisis."

Joko village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Joko. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Apena village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Apena. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Ikereku village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ikereku. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Akaa village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Akaa. File includes three hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Kutaw village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Kutaw. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Ijeja Kenta village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ijeja Kenta. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village traditional.

Ilewo village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Ilewo. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.

Awaro village data

File contains social and historical research notes and population medical survey results for the village of Awaro. File includes two hand-drawn maps of the village. Researchers considered the village modern.
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