Archives Catalogue

MS-13-66
Fonds
1866-1973

Fonds consists of a Hector Pothier's medical school diploma, a Dalhousie song book (ca. 1912-1913), photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, election paraphernalia, invoices, and speeches made to the Nova Scotia Legislature.

Pothier, Hector

Certificate from the Honourable Joseph Andrew Chisholm appointing Hector Joseph Pothier the coroner in and for the County of Digby

MS-13-166, SF Box 80, Folder 1
Item
1928

Part of Hector Pothier fonds

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

T tests for differences between Nigerian 1961 sample and Stirling 1952 sample

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 11
File
1962

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File consists of pages of calculations determining the differences between male and female respondents and between the Nigerian and Stirling County data samples.

Extra copies of crucial tables (C - A analysis)

MS-13-86, Box 11, Folder 3
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains notes on and tables of psychiatric rating and impairment statistics. There is much comparison between Yoruba villages, Abeokuta, and Stirling County and analysis of respective physical and mental health symptoms and patterns.

Tables on psychiatric findings from 1964 rural Yoruba study on integration, changing villages, and enlightenment

MS-13-86, Box 13, Folder 2
File
[1964?]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains tables of demographic and socioeconomic data with ABCD RIDIT calculations. Contains comparison data from Stirling County.

Yoruba-Stirling comparisons (working notes)

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 10
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains computer printouts and datasets relating to Yoruba village and Stirling County data.

Notes on Stirling and Nigerian findings

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 11
File
[196-]

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds

File contains tables, graphs, and charts comparing Nigerian and Stirling County data. Also contains notes and thoughts on analytics and data significance.

Stirling 10 PX

MS-13-86, Box 14, Folder 12
File

Part of Alexander Leighton and Jane Murphy fonds