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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.

Dates

  • 1893 - 1915

Creator

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.
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

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