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Mary and Ruth Goodall Bradley papers

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Call Number:
MSS 2/074
Repository:
Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Extent:
7 folders
Language:
English
Date:
1893-1915 (inclusive)
Creator:
Bradley, Mary Goodall and Bradley, Ruth Goodall
Abstract:

Mary Goodall Bradley and Ruth Goodall Bradley, daughters of Thomas Bradley of Philadelphia, were patients of Edward Livingston Trudeau at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the early 1890s. In 1901 or 1902, Mary Bradley married Erroll B. Hay of Wayne, Pennsylvania. Ruth Bradley married Wyle T. Wilson. No other information concerning the Bradley sisters is available.

This small collection of materials, 1893-1915, preserved by Mary and Ruth Bradley, documents the life of Edward Livingston Trudeau, physician and tuberculosis researcher, as well as the treatment of tuberculosis patients at Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the 1890s.

Series 1 contains two autographed letters, 1898 and circa 1902, from Edward Livingston Trudeau to Mary Bradley. Series 2 is an undated manuscript prescription by Trudeau for throat spray. Series 3 contains newsclippings and other printed materials; most of these items are obituary notices of Edward Livingston Trudeau who died in 1915.

The bulk of the Bradley Collection is contained in Series 4, Photographs. There are ten images of Edward Livingston Trudeau, 1893-1895, and two of his wife, Charlotte B. Trudeau, 1893 and undated, as well as five photographs of patients partaking of the outdoor cure for tuberculosis, 1893-1895. This cure was promoted by Trudeau at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. The series also contains an array of sixteen images of buildings at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and the Saranac Lake area, 1893-1897.

The letters and photographs in the Bradley Collection were assembled by Mary and Ruth Bradley, during and after their stay as patients at Saranac Lake. The collection was donated to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia on 5 October 1973 by Margaret H. Whiteside, niece of the Bradley sisters.

The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990.

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Collection Inventory

Autographed letter signed: Saranac Lake, N.Y., to Mary Bradley, Philadelphia, Pa., 10 April 1898.
Box 1 Folder 1
Autographed letter signed: Saranac Lake, N.Y. to Mary Bradley [Mrs. Erroll B. Hay], Wayne, Pa., circa 1902 January 19.
Box 1 Folder 2
Series 2: Prescription for throat spray, undated.
Series 3: Newsclippings and printed materials, 1915 and undated.

Trudeau, Edward Livingston and Trudeau, Charlotte B., in sleigh , bw print mounted, 4" x 5, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 4
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, full-length, standing, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted , 5", 1894.
Box 1 Folder 5
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, full-length, sitting on fence , cyanotype print , 3.5" x 4.25, 1985.
Box 1 Folder 6
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, head and shoulders, G. W. Baldwin, Saranac Lake, N.Y. shoulders, and , head print mounted , 4.25", April 1895.
Box 1 Folder 7
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, with unidentified male group, bw print (3) , 3.5" x 4.75, undated.
Box 1 Folder 8
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, full-length, standing, G. W. Baldwin, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , standing, print mounted , 4.25", undated.
Box 1 Folder 9
Trudeau, Edward Livingston, head and shoulders, G. W. , print mounted , 7", undated.
Box 1 Folder 10
Statue of Edward Livingston Trudeau, Saranac Lake, N.Y.? bw print , 8", undated.
Box 1 Folder 11
Trudeau, Charlotte B., full-length, sitting , albumen print mounted , 4" x 5, 1895.
Box 1 Folder 12
Trudeau, Charlotte B., full-length, standing, Hargrave, New York, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 4.25" x 6.5, undated.
Box 1 Folder 13
Patients (3) sitting on woodpile, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 3" x 3, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 14
Patients (3) sitting on Mrs. Evans' porch, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 3" x 3, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 15
Patients (5) sitting on Mrs. Evans' porch, Saranac Lake, N.Y., Baldwin's Photo, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 5" x 8.5, December 1893.
Box 1 Folder 16
Patients (11) on Mrs. Evans' porch, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 5" x 8.5, circa 1893.
Box 1 Folder 17
Bradley, Mary (?), and unidentified male on pavement, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print , 3.5" x 3.5, 1895.
Box 1 Folder 18
Saranac Lake, N.Y., panorama, bw print mounted (2) 7" x 14.75, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 19
Main Building, exterior view, Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print, 3.5" x 4.5, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 21
Saranac Laboratory, exterior view, Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print , 3.75" x 4.5, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 22
Saranac Lake, N.Y. , albumen print, 4" x 5, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 23
Hotel and exterior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 3" x 3, 1893.
Box 1 Folder 24
Episcopal Church, exterior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , albumen print, 3.75" x 4.5, circa 1893.
Box 1 Folder 25
Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print , 3.5" x 4.5, 1894.
Box 1 Folder 26
Ruth Bradley's house, exterior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print, 3.5" x 4.5, 1895.
Box 1 Folder 27
Ruth Bradley's house, interior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print , 4" x 5, 1895.
Box 1 Folder 28
Church Street, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 5" x 10, 21 March 1896.
Box 1 Folder 29
Baker Memorial Christ Chapel, exterior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , cyanotype print , 3.5" x 4.75, 1897.
Box 1 Folder 30
Baker Memorial Christ Chapel, exterior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print, 3.75" x 4.25, 1897.
Box 1 Folder 31
Church Street, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted , 5" x 7, undated.
Box 1 Folder 32
Mrs. Evans' house, exterior view, Saranac Lake, N.Y. , bw print mounted, 5" x 8.25, undated.
Box 1 Folder 33

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