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Howard S. Liddell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-23-1466

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Personal papers include school notebooks, 1920's, and miscellany. Professional papers include correspondence, acknowledgements, recommendations for students, Department of Psychology and Behavior Farm Laboratory correspondence; conference and lecture notes, manuscripts, programs, and memos, 1952-1963; student notes, rollbooks, and course materials; research notebooks and files, ca. 1930-1959; Department of Psychology financial files, 1926-1963, and subject files on topics including the Behavior Farm, equipment, and procedures; manuscripts and printed materials include reprints by Liddell and other authors; also visual materials such as photograph albums, diagrams, glass slides and negatives, and movie film dealing with pig, sheep, dog, and goat experiments at the Behavior Farm. Correspondents include the American Russian Institute, American Society for Research in Psychosomatic Problems, Association for Advancement of Psychoanalysis, W. Horsley Gantt, A. U. Moore, Leon J. Saul, J. Paul Scott, graduate students, publishers, and other scientists and psychologists.

Dates

  • 1920-1967

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Biographical / Historical

Biographic chronology

CHRONOLOGY

1917
Graduated Univ. of Michigan
1918
MA
1923
Cornell Univ. Ph.D.
1919
Cornell Univ. Instructor
1926
Cornell Univ. Assistant Prof.
1930
Cornell Univ. Chairman of Dept. of Physiology in the Medical College
1939
Cornell Univ. Prof. of Psychology
1947
Cornell Univ. Prof. of Psychobiology

Extent

15 cubic feet. (15 cubic feet. 1 tape recording.,)

Abstract

Personal and professional papers and materials of Cornell University professor of psychobiology, founder of the Behavior Farm Laboratory.

SERIES LIST

  1. Photographs
  2. Diagrams
  3. Glass Slides and Negatives
  4. Movie Films

Physical Description

Correspondence, lecture and research notes, course materials, financial and subject files, manuscripts, printed materials, photographs, diagrams, glass slides and negatives, movie film, tape recording.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
D.B., G.S.
Date completed:
Sept. 1984
Date modified:
RMC Staff, September 2013
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by D.B., G.S.
Date
1999
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
ENG

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)