Mary and Ruth Goodall Bradley papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2/074
Scope and Contents
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.
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.
Dates
- 1893 - 1915
Creator
- Bradley, Mary Goodall (Person)
Biographical / Historical
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.
Extent
7 folders
Language of Materials
English
Custodial History
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.
The collection was processed and catalogued in 1990.
Creator
- Bradley, Mary Goodall (Person)
- Bradley, Ruth Goodall (Person)
- Title
- Mary and Ruth Goodall Bradley papers
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Repository
Contact:
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
19 S. 22nd Street
Philadelphia PA 19103 United States
