
Descriptive Summary
	Collection Number:	MS C 280c
	Creator:	Murphy, Lois Barclay, 1902-
	Title:	Lois B. Murphy Papers
	Dates:	1934-1972
	Quantity:	10.4 linear feet
	Abstract:	Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, talks, drafts, reprints and printed matter pertaining to the child development movement. Among the organizations and conferences represented are the Gesell Clinic, the Yale University Child Study Center, the Cornell-N. Y. Hospital Institute of Child Health, the World Health Organization and the 1940 White House Conference. A sizable portion of the correspondence and reprints pertain to individual projects and publications.

Biographical/Historical Note

Born in 1902 in Lisbon, Iowa, Lois Barclay Murphy attended Vassar College and earned a masters in theology from Union Theological Seminary. She had been fired from teaching comparative religion at Sarah Lawrence College when by chance she met the Head of the Macy Foundation in New York. He solicited her to conduct a study of sympathy in pre-schoolers. Not only did the study become her doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, it was later published as Social Behavior in Child Personality (1937). This work launched her career as a child psychologist, and is regarded as a pioneering study in social psychology. Her original study showed that children as young as 2 could show caring for each other, defend each other, or warn each other about danger. After her studies in New York, Murphy stared the first child development center at Sarah Lawrence College. She later moved to the Menninger Foundation in Kansas, where her husband Gardner Murphy, a noted psychologist in his own right, had become director. Here she helped conduct one of the early landmark studies of infants and preschoolers.

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Collection Summary

Correspondence, case studies, speeches, professional scholarship and reports document Murphy's professional career as a child psychologist. Also included are rough drafts of Murphy's book "Development, Vulnerability, and Resilience," later published as Vulnerability, Coping, and Growth: From Infancy to Adolescence (1976).

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Restrictions

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	MeSH Subjects
		Child Psychology
		Psychology, Child
	Personal Names
		Frank, Lawrence K.
	Corporate Names
		Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kan.

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I. Personal and Biographical Materials, 1935-1969
65	6	Evelyn Beyer reminiscences of Lois B. Murphy, 10/11 1989
40	1	Family and Personal Correspondence, 1946-1964
40	2	Family and Personal Correspondence, 1965-1969
	2	Unidentified photographs, female children, ca. 1950-1960
40	3	Correspondence, 1935-1945
40	4	Correspondence, 1947-1951

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II. Correspondence, 1934-1972
		General correspondence, 1952-1971
40	5		1952
40	6		Jan. - Apr. 1953
40	7		May - July 1953
40	8		Aug. - Dec. 1953
40	9		Jan. - Apr. 1954
40	10		1954
40	11		June 1954
40	12		July 1954
40	13		Aug. - Dec. 1954
41	1		Jan. - Feb. 1955
41	2		Mar. - June 1955
41	3		July - Sept. 1955
41	4		Oct. - Dec. 1955
41	5		Jan. - Mar. 1956
41	6		Apr. - June 1956
41	7		July - Oct. 1956
41	8		Nov. - Dec. 1956
41	9		Jan. 1957
41	10		Feb. - Apr. 1957
41	11		May - Sept. 1957
41	12		Oct. - Dec. 1957
41	13		Jan. - Feb. 1958
41	14		Mar. - Apr. 1958
41	15		Jan. - Apr. 1959
41	16		May - Dec. 1958
42	1		May - Sept. 1959
42	2		Oct. - Dec. 1959
42	3		Jan. - Feb. 1960
42	4		Mar. - Apr. 1960
42	5		May - Sept. 1960
42	6		Oct. - Dec. 1960
42	7		Jan. - Apr. 1961
42	8		May - Dec. 1961
42	9-12		1962
42	13		1963
43	1-2		1963
43	3		Jan. - Feb. 1964
43	4		Mar. - Apr. 1964
43	5		May - July 1964
43	6		July - Oct. 1964
43	7		Oct. - Dec. 1964
43	8		Jan. - Apr. 1965
43	9		May - Sept. 1965
43	10		Oct. - Dec. 1965
44	1		Jan. - Apr. 1966
44	2		May - July 1966
44	3		Aug. - Dec. 1966
44	4		Jan. - Apr. 1967
44	5		May - Sept. 1967
44	6		Oct. - Dec. 1967
44	7		Jan. - Apr. 1968
44	8		May - Aug. 1968
44	9		Sept. - Dec. 1968
44	10		Jan. - Mar. 1969
44	11		Apr. - May 1969
45	1		June - Dec. 1969
45	2		Jan. - Apr. 1970
45	3		May - Sept. 1970
45	4		Oct. 1970
45	5		Nov. - Dec. 1970
45	6		Jan. - Apr. 1971
45	7		May - Dec. 1971
		Outgoing correspondence (from Lois B. Murphy), 1962-1971
45	8		1962 Oct. - 1964
45	9		Nov. - Dec. 1964
45	10		Jan. - Mar. 1965
45	11		Apr. - May 1965
45	12		June - Oct. 19, 1965
45	13		Nov. - Dec. 1965
45	14		Jan. 1966
45	15		Feb. 1966
46	1		Mar. - Apr. 1966
46	2		May - June 1966
46	3		July - Sept. 1966
46	4		Oct. 1966 - 1968
46	5		1969-1971

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III. Subject and Organization Files, 1934-1972
46	6	American Orthopsychiatric Association Report, 1968
46	7	American Psychological Association, 1968
46	8	APHA - National Institute of Mental Health Workshop, 1964-1965
46	9	Assessment of Children in Group Care (Menninger Foundation), Sept. 1965
46	10	Association for Childhood Education International, 1971
46	11-12	Bank Street College, 1955-1961
46	13-14	Bank Street College Research
46	15	Bernardez, Teresa
46	16	Bryant, Keith
47	1	Caldwell, Bettye M.
47	2	Chandler, Caroline: correspondence, 1964-1968
47	3	Chandler, Caroline: memoranda
47	4	Chen, Ronald
47	5	Child Development Bill, 1970
47	6-7	Childrens Hospital of District of Columbia, 1964-1969
47	8	Childrens Hospital Grant Search, 1970
47	9	Close, Kathryn (Editor, Children), 1968-1969
47	10	Coelho, George V.
47	11	Coelho, George V.: NIMH
47	12	Comments and Reviews by Lois B. Murphy, 1961-1966
47	13	Comments and Reviews by Lois B. Murpny, 1966-1968
47	14	Commission on Violence, 1968
48	1-2	Davidson, Joan
48	3-7	Day Care Centers: Guidelines, 1961-1970
48	8	Day Care Centers: Guidelines, [undated]
48	9-10	Day Care Centers: Observations and Studies, 1961-1968
49	1	District of Columbia Mental Health Association, 1968-1971
49	2-5	Doxiades, Spyros
49	6	Drews, Elizabeth
49	7	Early Infant Development (Joint Monograph)
49	8	ECCR (Early Childhood Care Re-examined), 1964-1965
49	9	Erikson, Erik Symposium, 1970
49	10	Faris, Mildred
49	11	Frank, Lawrence K., 1965-1968
49	12	Garden Court Book: Individual Teachers Methods
49	13	Garden Court Book: House Council and Assembly (see also 1973 Accession Series, Children's Hospital subseries)
49	14	Gartler, Dr. Stanley, 1955
49	15	George Washington University School of Medicine, 1969
49	16	Greene, C. [3 jet plane pictures], 1968
50	1	Head Start, 1967-1969
50	2	Head Start, 1969
50	3	Hirschberg, Cotter
50	4	Holtzman, Wayne
50	5	Huntington, Dorothy
50	6	Infant Rearing Project, 1968
50	7	Job Applicants, 1967
50	8	Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 1968
50	9	Kirschner Associates Inc., (on Head Start), 1969
50	10	Kitimat: A New City (Albert Mayer, Consultant), 1960-1967
50	11-12	La Fon, Dorothy
50	13-14	Sarah Lawrence College, 1949-1961
50	15	Letters (re: Speeches and Trips), 1967-1968
50	16	Mattick, Ilse
50	17	Meers, Dale
50	18	Menninger Foundation: Research on ESP
50	19	Menninger Foundation: Miscellaneous Talks Conference, etc., 1939-1965
51	1-2	Menninger Foundation: Miscellaneous Talks Conference, etc., 1966-1970
51	3-4	Menninger, Karl: Memos, 1953-1970
51	5	Menninger, Roy
51	6	Menninger, Walter (re: Robert Baker, Violence Commission)
51	7-8	Menninger, William
51	9	Methods book: notes, 1961-1962
51	10	Metropolitan Mental Health Skills, 1967-1968
52	1	Morarity, Alice
52	2	Murphy, A.G.
52	3	National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), 1967-1970
52	4	National Association for the Education of Young Children, 1968
52	5	National Capitol Area Child Day Care Association, Inc., 1968
52	6-8	North Topeka Day Care Center, 1966-1969
52	9	North Topeka Day Care Center: Letters, Memos, etc.
52	10	North Topeka Day Care Center: Ransom Material
52	11	Northside Center for Child Development: Seminar, 1968
52	12	Office of Child Development, 1970
52	13	Office of Economic Opportunity, 1967-1969
52	14	Olivos and Gaviria
52	15	Otto, Herbert
52	16	Outlines for Child Studies
53	1	Patterson, Mary Katherine [child]
53	2	Pavenstedt, Eleanor
53	3	Parent and Child Evaluation (PCC), 1968-1969 (see also 1973 Accession Series, PCC subseries)
53	4	Piaget References
53	5	Psychoanalysis and Child Development, 1954-1958
53	6-7	Raine, Walter
53	8	Random House, 1957-1958
53	9	Random House, 1959-1960
53	10	Rassmussen, Margaret (on Association for Childhood Education)
53	11	Recommendation Letters, 1968
53	12	Recovery and Growth in Childhood Talk, 1956
53	13	Reprints Requests by Murphy, 1967-1969
53	14	Reprints Requests for Murphy, 1968-1969
53	15	Safrin, Reeva
53	16	Stith, Marjorie
53	17	Stith, Marjorie
54	1-6	Stone, L. Joseph
54	7	Sugarman, J. and Zigler, E. (re: Child Development), 1970
54	8	Theilmann, Giles
54	9	Toussieng, Povl
54	10	Urban Renewal Project Staff
54	11	Waldman, Marvin
54	12	Walker, Richard
54	13-14	Wallerstein, Robert
54	15	Washington Psychoanalystic Institute, 1968-1970
		White House Task Force on Child Development, 1966
54	16		A Bill of Rights for Children
54	17		Correspondence and memos on Child Development, 1966
54	18		Statements and Reports on Child Development, 1966
55	1-2		Statements, Reports on Child Development, 1966
55	3-4	Yarrow, Leon

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IV. Conference papers, talks, reports, and drafts, 1939-1970
55	5	1939-1962
55	6	1964-1968
55	7	1969-1970
55		Panel Meeting of Current Follow-up Studies of Children in their Own Homes, Adopted Children and Psychiatric Referrals, Dec. 1962
55	8		Stenographic transcript, 3 Dec. 1962
55	9		Stenographic transcript, 4 Dec. 1962
		Talks, 1953-1970
56	1		1953-1955
56	2		1956
56	3		1957
56	4		1958-1959
56	5		1960
56	6		1961
56	7		1962
56	8		1963
56	9		1964-1965
56	10		1966
57	1		1966
57	2		1967
57	3		1968
57	4		1969
57	5		1970
58	1		1970
58	2		n.d.

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V. Reprints, 1934-1973
58	3	1934-1939
58	4	1940-1942
59	1	1943-1945
59	2	1946-1949
59	3	1950-1959
59	4	1960-1961
59	5	1964
59	6	1965-1697
59	7	1968-1969
59	8	1970-1973
59	9	n.d.

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VI. 1973 Accession, 1941-1971
		Mental Retardation and Preschool Education in Kansas, 1954-1968
			Methods: Coping Project (N. Tibout), 1954-1968
59	11			Mental Retardation - Life Stage II Committee, 1964-1965
59	12			Articles on mental retardation, 1964-1965
60	1			Committee meetings and minutes, 1964-1965
60	2			Committee meetings and minutes, 1965
60	3			Memorandum, 1964-1965
60	4			Talks, 1962-1965
60	5			Miscellaneous
60	6		Proposed Plans for Terra Vista PCC
60	7		Proposed Plans for PCC, 1967
61	1		Proposed Plans for PCC, 1968
			Reports on visits to PCC's, 1968-1969; n.d.
61	2			Atlanta
61	3			Barton, VT
61	4			Chattanooga, TN
61	5			Chicago, IL
61	6			Cincinnati and Cleveland
61	7			Edgewod and Hardinsburg
61	8			Hoonah, Alaska and Huntington, WV
61	9			Jacksonville and Minneapolis
61	10			New York and Pasco, Washington
61	11			Pine Ridge, SD and St. Louis, Kentucky
61	12			Syracuse and Washington, D.C.
61	13		National Evaluation of PCC's, 1968-1969
62	1		Evaluation Comments on PCC's, 1966-1969
62	2		Correspondence on PCC's, 1966-1971
62	3		Memos on PCC's
		Children's Hospital, Menninger Foundation (Garden Court), 1967-1971 (see also the case studies subseries in this series)
62	4		Social Club minutes, 1970-1971
62	4a		Assembly Club minutes, 1970-1971
62	5-8		House Council minutes, 1967-1971
		Consulting: Nigeria and India, 1941-1963
			Nigeria
62	9-10			Correspondence, 1962-1963
62	11-12			1963-1964
			India
63	1			Correspondence, 1941-1950
63	2			Miscellaneous, 1951
63	3			1955
63	4			Rural Children
63	5			"Problems and Needs of Workers with Children"
63	6			Seminars
		Miscellaneous biographical items, publications, and reports
63	7		Conference on Perception and Personality, Apr. 6-7, 1956
63	8		Report of Task Force I, The Joint Commission of the Mental Health of Children, July 1968
63	9		Boles Glen. "Personality Factors in Mothers of Cerebral Palsied Children", Genetic Psychology Monographs, 59, 159-218, 1959
63	10		"Rural Concept Parent Child Centers", [undated]
63	11		The Child in the Church [contains LBM's baptismal certificate], 1905
		Case studies of individual patients, 1959; 1969-1971
64	1		July,1959
64	2		July, 1959
64	3-4		1959
64	5-6		Garden Court patient reports, 1969-1971
64	7-8		Garden Court patient reports (babies), 1969-1971

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VII. "Development, Vulnerability, and Resilience": Drafts, 1969-1972
64	9	Table of Contents; Preface, 1970; 1971
64	10	Chapter 1: The Development of Methods and Staff, Jan. 1971
64	11	Chapter 3: The Environment in which Our Subjects Grew Up..., 1969
64	12	"The Ecology of Development", 1969
64	13	Chapter 5: Individual Differences in the Infants, Aug. 1972
64	14	Chapter 6: "The Mothers with Their Babies", Aug. 1972
64	15	"Mothers"
64	16	"Coping Patterns in Topeka Children" (1st draft), 1972
64	17	Chapter 4: Preschool Coping and Vulnerability
64	18	Chapter 7: "Preschool Behavior and Relationships with Infancy
64	19	Chapter 8: Infancy Patterns in Relation to Prepuberty Behavior
64	20	"Vulnerability", Aug. 1969
65	1	"Speech and Language as Indices of Vulnerability", Apr. 1971
65	2	"Stress in Topeka", Oct. 1971
65	3	"Reactions to Stress..", Sept. 2, 1969
65	4	"Resilience and Recovery", Aug. 1969
65	5	Chapter 15: "A Vulnerable and Resilient Child Grows Up: Helen.", Oct. 1971

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Finding Aid to the Lois B. Murphy Papers, 1934-1976

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Finding Aid to the Lois B. Murphy Papers, 1934-1972

Descriptive Summary

Biographical/Historical Note

Collection Summary

Restrictions

Restrictions

Copyright

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Provenance

Series Descriptions

I. Personal and Biographical Materials, 1935-1969

II. Correspondence, 1934-1972

III. Subject and Organization Files, 1934-1972

IV. Conference papers, talks, reports, and drafts, 1939-1970

V. Reprints, 1934-1973

VI. 1973 Accession, 1941-1971

VII. "Development, Vulnerability, and Resilience": Drafts, 1969-1972

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