DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
James J. Gibson papers,
1922-1980.
Collection Number:
14-23-1832
Creator:
James Jerome, Gibson 1904-
Quantity:
14.6 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Professional papers include extensive drafts, notes, outlines, letters, conferences, courses, lectures, seminars, and symposia,
magazine articles, newspaper clippings, notes, and pamphlets, research papers include drafts, notes, and correspondence, typescripts
of articles, books, essays, short papers, diagrams, original sketches, photographs, and tables.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Gibson's experimentation and research papers include drafts, notes, and correspondence in many areas of perceptual psychology
including aviation, perspective, and physiological optics. Documentation for published material. Correspondence concerning
Gibson's writing career.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Professional papers include extensive drafts, notes, outlines, and occasional letters related to colloquia, conferences, courses,
lectures, seminars, and symposia given at Smith College and Cornell; also, magazine articles, newspaper clippings, notes,
and pamphlets for a course on propaganda planned for 1939. Gibson's experimentation and research papers include drafts, notes,
and correspondence in many areas of perceptual psychology including aviation, perspective, and physiological optics. Documentation
for published material includes drafts and typescripts of articles, books, essays, short papers, diagrams, original sketches,
photographs, and tables; also, annotated reprints by Gibson and other prominent psychologists. Correspondence includes letters
to and from the Houghton Mifflin Company and LEONARDO magazine concerning Gibson's writing career; with groups such as the
National Academy of Sciences, the Symposium of Oral Sensation, and the Research Career Award;
and with Rudolf Arnheim, Jacob Beck (University of Oregon), Edwin G. Boring (Harvard University), James Bosma (National
Institute of Dental Research), Michelangelo Fluckiger (with a recommendation from Jean Piaget), E. H. Gombrich, Mary Henle,
Gunnar Johansson, David N. Lee, William Mace (University of Texas) Norman Malcolm (Cornell University), Frank J. Malina (founder
and editor of LEONARDO magazine), Fabio Metelli (Italy), and Albert Michotte.
Joseph M. Notterman (Princeton Advisory Council), Joseph Royce (Center for Theoretical Psychology), and Robert E. Shaw (University
of Connecticut). Also, Gibson books annotated by Gibson.
SUBJECTS
Names:
Gibson, James Jerome,1904-
Arnheim, Rudolf.
Beck, Jacob.
Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968.
Bosma, James F.
Fluckiger, Michelangelo.
Gombrich, E. H.(Ernst Hans), 1909-
Henle, Mary, 1913-
Johansson, Gunnar.
Lee, David N.
Mace, William.
Malcolm, Norman, 1911-
Malina, Frank J.
Metelli, Fabio.
Michotte, Albert.
Notterman, Joseph M.
Piaget, Jean, 1896-
Royce, Joseph R.
Shaw, Robert E.
Cornell University--Faculty.
Cornell University
Houghton Mifflin Company.
National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)
Smith College--Faculty.
Smith College
Titles:
Leonardo.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Psychology--Research.
Perception--Psychology.
Psychologists.
College teachers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.