Archives Catalogue

MS-13-86, Box 102, Folder 13
File
1960 - 1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains photographs of staff members of the Nigerian study. Also includes photos from the Pan-African Psychiatric Conference and a group photo, possibly of the African Students Association of Cornell University.

Nigerian women's study master lists

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 1
File
[1963?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains lists of educated Nigerian women, organized by region.

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.

Jane Murphy's correspondence and thank-you letters to Nigeria

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 4
File
1961 - 1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of letters, postcards, greeting cards, air letters, and other correspondence between Jane Murphy and numerous friends and acquaintances in Nigeria.

Published data

Subseries
1962 - 2002

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries contains published articles by study respondents and newspaper clippings regarding women's life in Nigeria.

Cuttings from Nigerian newspapers related to the Role of Women study

MS-13-86, Box 26, Folder 7
File
1963

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an assortment of newspaper clippings on sociological topics like education, polygamy, women's rights, teenage discipline, and women in the workforce in Nigeria. Also contains a 2-page index to included clippings.

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.

Bibliography of the Stirling County study

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 8
File
2007

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of sources used in the Stirling County study between 1950 and 2007.

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.

A handbook for the psychiatric evaluation of personal data as developed by the Stirling County study and the Cornell Program in Social Psychiatry / by Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 29, Folder 17
File
1965

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a large handbook on psychiatric evaluation as written by Alexander Leighton and Dorothea Leighton for the Stirling County study.

Stirling report #131 - Research design of the Stirling County study / G.E. McCreary

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 2
File
1953

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File also contains a four-page memo (STI 31a) by McCreary regarding further considerations of the present research and comments of future research.

(part of) Stirling report #446 - Chapter III : community reactions

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 8
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

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

Stirling report #201 - Stirling County study in community development

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 13
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Stirling report #207 - Stirling County study : Halifax hospital health survey field worker's handbook / Allister M. Macmillan, Director, Health Survey Unit

MS-13-86, Box 30, Folder 15
File
[1950?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Report #241 - Method book : public relations, 1954 - June 30, 1955, vol. 2

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 4
File
1954

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Social psychiatry : a definition / by Thomas A. C. Rennie

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 5
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of an article by Thomas A. C. Rennie, reprinted from the International Journal of Social Psychiatry in 1955.

Foreword for Dr. Opler's book

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 6
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a manuscript for the foreword of a psychiatry book by Dr. Opler.

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic resident's routine

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 17
File
1955

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an apparent handbook for the roles and responsibilities of the first and second resident psychiatrists at the Payne Whitney Clinic.

Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic study of personality

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 20
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains guidelines for the study of patient personalities.

Communications and correspondence regarding Vietnam study

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 5
File
1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains summaries of phone conversations, letters, and reports between Alexander Leighton, Terry Rambo/Rambeau, Samuel Popkin, Philip Ross, Jerry Tinker, and Gerald Tinker regarding the psychological study in Vietnam.

Societies, committees, task forces, and associations

Series
1939 - 2013

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of documents relating to the various boards and committees of which Alexander Leighton was a member.

Prevention of mental illness

Series
1958 - 2010

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series contains materials related to the development of Alexander Leighton's book on the prevention of mental illness. Documents include manuscripts, correspondence, research notes, and copies of past publications.

Elements of psychotherapy in Navaho religion / Alexander H. Leighton and Dorothea C. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 31, Folder 9
File
1941

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

The view from here : human values, the science of human relations and government / by Alexander H. Leighton

MS-13-86, Box 100, Folder 3
File
1946 - 1947

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a manuscript for an article and correspondence regarding the article's editing and publication.

Psychiatric disorder grant applications

Series
1948 - 1974

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Series consists of numerous research proposals and grant applications for various joint and solo projects.

Research plan / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 1
Item

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a typed manuscript (lightly annotated and with a handwritten title page) outlining a preliminary research plan in response to the question: "Are there patterns of society and culture that predispose or produce neuroses and psychoses in the constituent members?"

Seminar report on paper-and-pencil tests (non-projective) for screening psychoneurotics and psychotics / M.L. Kohn

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 9, item 2
Item
7 November 1949

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Item is a handwritten report with a preface attributing a large portion of the material "from a preliminary report on psychological testing prepared by Dr. Frank Freeman of Cornell University."

Phyllis Geiss' research papers

MS-13-86, Box 27, Folder 10
File
1950

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains research plans, study summaries, and stress map reports by Phyllis Geiss.

Adolf Meyer's psychobiology course outlines

MS-13-86, Box 32, Folder 3
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains course outlines, teaching materials, and exam guidelines for Adolf Meyer's course on psychobiology and ergasiology.

Seminars on dynamic sociology

MS-13-86, Box 101, Folder 5
File
1938

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains reports and lecture scripts from the 1938 seminars on dynamic sociology.

Jane Murphy's correspondence with Nigerians

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1961 - 1967

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File largely consists of copies of Jane Murphy's outgoing correspondence. Also contains some original incoming letters and one outgoing letter by Charles C. Hughes.

Memos on the organization and filing of data for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of two memos containing an index of Nigerian research materials and suggestions for their organization and storage.

Progress report for Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project

MS-13-86, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1961

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains an interim progress report for the Cornell-Aro Mental Health Research Project with reference to the National Institute of Health grant M-4506.

Davies and Johnson mop-up operations and results

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 6
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains a list of follow-up tasks related to community respondent information. Also contains a bundle of small notecards with similar follow-up questions and notes.

List of alternate spellings of respondents' names

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 8
File
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of a list of community respondents alongside alternate spellings of their names.

Notes on considering villages to be integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional

MS-13-86, Box 2, Folder 11
File
[between 1959-1961]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains information on 14 villages to aid researchers in determining whether they should be considered integrated or disintegrated and modern or traditional. Information is based on population, education, religion, industry, and family structure.

Social science field data

Subseries
[1961?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries consists of collected respondents' answers to the social science data questionnaire. Answers are organized by sex of the respondents.

Data analysis

Subseries
1960 - 1972

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

Subseries includes data for and analyses of socioeconomic aspects of Yoruba women's lives (education, migration, social class, health, children, husbands, religion, family, etc.). The 1963 data seems to be part of another study, referred to in several files as "The 1963 study on the role of Yoruba women," that either piggybacked off the Cornell-Aro study or was somehow included as a sub-project.

Symptom and situation coding 680 - 689