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Descriptive Summary
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Collection Summary
Index Terms
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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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Finding Aid to the Lois B. Murphy Papers, 1934-1972
Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program, History of Medicine Division
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| Collection Number: | MS C 280c |
| Creator: | Murphy, Lois Barclay, 1902- |
| Title: | Lois B. Murphy Papers
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| 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. |
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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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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| MeSH Subjects |
| | Child Psychology |
| | Psychology, Child |
| Personal Names |
| | Frank, Lawrence K. |
| Corporate Names |
| | Menninger Foundation, Topeka, Kan. |
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Murphy, Lois Barclay. Lois B. Murphy Papers. 1934-1972. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 280c.
Gifts of Lois B. Murphy.
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I. Personal and Biographical Materials, 1935-1969
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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
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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
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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 |
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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 | |
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V. Reprints, 1934-1973
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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
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Mental Retardation and Preschool Education in Kansas, 1954-1968 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Consulting: Nigeria and India, 1941-1963 |
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Nigeria |
62 | 9-10 | | |
Correspondence, 1962-1963 |
62 | 11-12 | | |
1963-1964 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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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