David C. McClelland collection compiled by David G. Winter

The collection consists chiefly of biographical materials from the 1920s to 2012 about David C. McClelland compiled by David G. Winter, a former student, colleague, and research associate of McClelland. Included are writings about McClelland by Winter and other scholars, including a Harvard honors thesis by Karen Lynn Edwards, A Pyschobiography of David C. McClelland,. The writings examine McClelland’s contributions to personality assessment measurement, including McClelland’s Thematic Apperception Test approach to the measurement of a person’s patterns of thought, attitudes, observational capacity, and emotional responses. Correspondence and a talk given by McClelland document his association with the American Friends Service Committee in the 1940s, particularly as a camp volunteer in Tennessee promoting non-violent methods of social change among Americans. Other records include correspondence obtained by Winter from Bryn Mawr College which document McClelland’s employment history at the college from 1944 to 1945; and notes gathered by McClelland that list the number of his students who became professional psychologists. A talk given by McClelland to young female college students during World War II, urging them to become active in the post-war rebuilding of civilization is also found in the collection. Also included are photographs of McClelland from the 1920s to 1987, a college paper written by McClelland on feminist, Mary Lamb (circa 1938), and McClelland’s United States Employment Service and Selective Service Registration cards (1940).