Elsie Murray papers, [ca. 1896]-1965.
Collection Number: 14-23-881

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Elsie Murray papers, [ca. 1896]-1965.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
14-23-881
Creator:
Murray, Elsie, 1878-1965.
Quanitities:
32.4 cubic feet.
Scope and content

Correspondence, test forms and materials, research and testing notes, drafts of scientific writings, and printed and mimeographed matter pertaining to the studies and publications of Dr. Murray and fellow psychologists on color blindness and various aspects of color vision. Dr. Murray's color studies for the Office of Naval Research, color perception tests and apparatus, the aesthetics of color, intelligence and other mental tests, and the activities of the Inter-Society Color Council, the New York and American Psychological Associations, and other professional organizations; also, printed and mimeographed materials pertaining to French Azilum and to the Tioga Point Museum and local history, manuscripts and notes pertaining to Murray's interest in music, poetry, and social psychology, photographs, manuscripts of her unpublished fiction, and newspaper clippings on many subjects. In addition, personal correspondence, diaries (1919, 1921-22, 1924, 1928-34, 1940), accounts, her journal (1926-27) as secretary of the Cornell University Music Department, and her class notes as student and professor.
Scope and content

Correspondence with Karl M. Dallenbach and Joseph Peterson mainly concerns publication of the AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY; among the other correspondents are Frank Allen, Madison Bentley, Edwin G. Boring, Forrest Lee Dimmick, Knight Dunlap, Dean Farnsworth, James J. Gibson, Walter F. Grether, J.P. Guilford, Samuel P. Hayes, Dorothea and Leo Hurvich, Deane B. Judd, Sidney M. Newhall, Dorothy Nickerson, R.W. Pickford, Lars-Gunnar Romell, Howard C. Warren, Harry P. Weld, Christian A. Ruckmick, and manufacturers of psychological testing apparatus. In addition, letters (1965) to Mrs. Toby Clarey from Dallenbach, Dimmick, Hurvich, Nickerson, Weld, and Frank S. Freeman, in answer to her request fro reminiscences of Dr. Murray for a CORNELL ALUMNI NEWS article.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Preferred Citation

Elsie Murray papers, #14381. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Biographical / Historical

Psychologist. Cornell University Class of 1904, Ph.D 1907; professor of psychology at Sweet Briar, Vassar, Wells, and Wilson Colleges; research associate at Cornell University; director of French Azilum, Inc. and the Tioga Point Museum, Bradford County, Pennsylvania.
Bibliographic References

Coverage unknown -- Described in REPORT OF THE CURATOR AND ARCHIVIST, 1962-66.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Allen, Frank.
Bentley, Madison, 1870-1955.
Boring, Edwin Garrigues, 1886-1968.
Clarey, Toby.
Dallenbach, Karl M., 1887-1971.
Dimmick, Forrest Lee, 1875-1949.
Dunlap, Knight, 1875-1949.
Farnsworth, Dean.
Freeman, Frank S. (Frank Samuel), 1898-1986.
Gibson, James J. (James Jerome), 1904-1979.
Grether, Walter F.
Guilford, J. P. (Joy Paul), 1897-1987.
Hayes, Samuel P.
Hurvich, Dorothea.
Hurvich, Leo M. (Leo Maurice), 1910-2009.
Judd, Deane Brewster, 1900-1972.
Newhall, Sidney M.
Nickerson, Dorothy.
Peterson, Joseph.
Pickford, R. W.
Romell, Lars-Gunnar.
Ruckmick, Christian A.
Warren, Howard C.
Weld, Harry P.
American Psychological Association
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Cornell University -- : Students.
Cornell University. Department of Music
French Azilum
Inter-Society Color Council
New York State Psychological Association
United States. Office of Naval Research
Tioga Point Museum
Places:
Bradford County (Pa.) -- History.
Subjects:
Color blindness.
Color vision.
Intelligence tests.
Music.
Psychology
Social psychology.
Visual perception.
Psychologists.
Women college teachers.
Form and Genre Terms:
Accounts.
Diaries.
Photographs.
Reminiscences.
Journals (notebooks).
CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Box 1
Correspondence, photographs,
Date Unknown
source: Clarey, Toby
Clarey, Toby
Box 2
Correspondence, forms, reports, notes concerning applications for and work on research grants, printed items concerning the health of children
 Date Unknown
Box 3
Diaries
 1919, 1921-1922, 1924, 1928-1934, 1940
Box 3
Account books, address book, notes and printed matter concerning music
 Date Unknown
Box 3
Journal as secretary of Cornell University Music Department
 1926-1927
Box 4
Drafts of Murray's scientific papers and speeches
 Date Unknown
Box 5
Tioga Point Museum, French Azilum and local history items, creative writing and other manuscripts by Murray, newspaper and magazine clippings and dramatic and musical programs.
Date Unknown
Box 6
High school and college notes
 Date Unknown
Box 8
Reprints and copies of scientific articles on color and color vision
 Date Unknown
Box 9
United States Office of Naval Research with booklets of various studies, notes, expenses and reports pertaining to Murray's work
 Date Unknown
Box 10
Notes pertaining to esthetics of color
 Date Unknown
Box 11
Esthetics of color items, notes concerning audition, dreams, philosophy and ethics
 Date Unknown
Box 12
Notes concerning social psychology, emotions, generalizations, and poetry
 Date Unknown
Box 13
Cornell freshman color tests
 Date Unknown
Box 14
Cornell freshman color tests and intelligence tests
Date Unknown
Box 15
Printed and mimeographed matter from Intersociety Color Council
 Date Unknown
Box 16
Intersociety Color Council matter, printed items from Cornell, maps and timetables
 Date Unknown
Box 17
Notes, reports, samples concerning color charts, tests, scales, bills, drawings, advertisements and printed mater concerning equipment
 Date Unknown
Box 18
Mimeographed and printed matter concerning the New York and American Psychological Association, the Psychological Corp, the American Association for Advancement of Science, Cornell University Psychology Department, and the Optical Society of America and one ball from color test
 Date Unknown
Box 19
Notes, test items concerning learning, memory, reason, free association and controlled association
 Date Unknown
Box 20
Notes, test items concerning memory and recognition, concept judgement, character tests, laboratory directions from junior and senior experiments
 1917
Box 21
Notes and test items concerning intelligence tests, including group tests of juniors, reasoning tests, education scales, language and spelling
 1917-1919
Box 22
Notes and test items concerning accuracy tests, attention tests, practical ability tests
 Date Unknown
Box 23
Notes and test items concerning education, personality, free association and miscellaneous topics
 Date Unknown
Box 24
Notes and test items concerning psychological and mental tests
 Date Unknown
Box 25
Items concerning psychological experiments, psychology notes from courses
Date Unknown
Box 26
Notes and test items concerning learning, association, educational scales, arithmetic and history, attention
 Date Unknown
Box 27
Notes and test items concerning images and imagination, ingenuity, Binet tests, and folders concerning intelligence and ability testing of children
 Date Unknown
Box 28
Notes and test items concerning intelligence tests, including freshman tests
 Date Unknown
Box 29
Notes and test items concerning Binet Point Scale by Lewis Terman, and Murrary's child psychology lecture II and III
 Date Unknown
Box 30
Research notes
 Date Unknown
Box 31
Research notes
 Date Unknown
Box 32
Blocks, bits of color, and puzzles used for tests
 Date Unknown
Box 33
Books and pamphlets on psychology and other subjects,
Date Unknown