Mary and Ruth Goodall Bradley papers

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.