MSS 2/0008-01 Acc.1989-035
BRADLEY, WILLIAM N.,
(1871-1962)
Radio Broadcasts, Addresses, and Other Writings,
1917-1946
Box Ser.
1 1 RADIO BROADCASTS, 1923-1942 (12 folders):
1. "Keeping the baby well" [typescripts]
(1 folder) 1923-07-31
2. "Child health" [typescript]
(1 folder) 1924-04-28
3. "Nutrition of the school child"
[typescript] (1 folder) 1924-11-08
4. "Hints on the summer care of infants and children"
[typescripts] (1 folder) [ca.1925-07-07?]
5. "Every child fit for school" [manuscript
with typescript] (1 folder) 1927-05-02
6. [Feeding the infant] [manuscript with
typescript] (1 folder) [ca.1928-02-24?]
7. [Pre school age child] [typescript]
(1 folder) 1928-04-30
8. "The children's charter of health"
[manuscript with typescript]
(1 folder) 1931-05-05
9. "The feeding and care of infants and children
while travelling" [typescripts]
(1 folder) 1931-07-14
10. "The feeding and care of infants and children
while travelling" [typescripts]
(1 folder) 1932-06-02
11. "Health of the runabouts" [manuscript]
(1 folder) 1933-05-05
12. "The importance of periodic health examinations
for children" [typescript]
(1 folder) 1942-04-02
2 ADDRESSES, 1918-1934 (9 folders):
1. "How to prevent summer diarrhoea" [typescript]
30th Ward Baby Health Drive, Philadelphia, PA
(1 folder) [ca.1918?]
2. "Care of the baby in hot weather" [typescript]
(1 folder) [ca.1918?]
3. "Management of infectious and contagious diseases"
[manuscript with research notes and drafts]
(1 folder) [ca.1918?]
2 4. [Child care] [typescript]
Visiting Nurses Society, Atlantic City, NJ
(1 folder) [ca.1919?]
5. "Meaning and importance of child welfare"
[newsclipping only]
Child Federation Annual Meeting, Atlantic City, NJ
(1 folder) [ca.1919-01-29?]
6. "Infectious and contagious diseases"
[typescript outline only]
(1 folder) 1924-01-26
7. [The prevention of disease in children]
[typescript]
Philadelphia Medical Society May Day Celebration,
Philadelphia, PA
(1 folder) 1928-04-24
8. "The prevention of disease in children"
[typescript]
Luzerne County Medical Society, Wilkes Barre, PA
(1 folder) [ca.1933-09-20?]
9. [A renewal of child health efforts] [manuscript]
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department for the Prevention of Disease,
Philadelphia, PA (1 folder) [ca.1934?]
3 UNPUBLISHED ARTICLES, 1918 and 1941 (2 folders):
1. "The fly menace" [typescript]
(1 folder) [ca.1918?]
2. "Dietetic management of summer diarrhoea"
[research notes only] (1 folder) [ca.1941?]
4 MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS, 1917 and 1946 (2 folders):
1. Starr Center Association: vaccination study
(1 folder) 1917
2. Philadelphia Child Health Society
Committee on Teaching of Child Hygiene:
report (1 folder) 1946-07-23
1917-1946
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MSS 2/0008-01 Acc.1989-035
BRADLEY, WILLIAM N.,
(1871-1962)
Radio Broadcasts, Addresses, and Other Writings,
1917-1946
Biographical
William Nathaniel Bradley was born on 19 August 1871, in Felton, Delaware,
and moved to Philadelphia at an early age. He married Marion
Agnes Butsch (d.1937) in 1911. The Bradleys had two daughters,
Marion Audrey Harvey and Jean Claire Anderson. Born a Methodist,
Bradley later became a member of the Presbyterian Church. He
died in Wilmington, Delaware, on 17 April 1962.
Bradley's professional career began in 1888 when he became
an apprentice at a Philadelphia drugstore. In 1892, he graduated
from the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; in 1894, he received
an M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
From 1894 to 1896, Bradley taught histology at Jefferson Medical College.
In 1896, he became the chief of the Children's Clinic at the
South Eastern Dispensary. In 1909, Bradley was appointed Medical Director
of the Starr Center Association. He also worked as assistant
physician in the outpatient departments at Pennsylvania Hospital
and Philadelphia Orthopaedic Hospital (1909-1911).
From 1910 to 1912, Bradley taught pediatrics at Jefferson,
and he served as Pediatrist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
from 1912 to 1915. From 1915 to 1929, Bradley had charge of
the pediatric department at Howard Hospital. He also was instrumental
in the establishment of Babies' Hospital in 1911. In 1912,
he began to teach pediatrics at the School of Medicine of the
University of Pennsylvania; he continued in this position until
1926. From 1917 to 1946, he worked on the pediatric staff at
Philadelphia General Hospital. Bradley also taught at the Graduate
School of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania (1921 to
1946). He served as consulting pediatrist to the Municipal
Hospital for Contagious Diseases (1936-1946) and Wills Eye Hospital
(1932-1945). Bradley retired from active practice in 1955.
William N. Bradley was active in many professional organizations.
He served as a vice president of the Philadelphia County Medical
Society and helped to establish its South Branch. In 1906,
he was elected to the Philadelphia Pediatric Society and was
president of the society from 1914 to 1917. He also effected
the establishment of the child hygiene division of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.
In 1907, William Bradley was elected to fellowship in the College
of Physicians of Philadelphia. He was active on the Library
Committee of the College. In addition to his professional concern
for pediatrics, Bradley was also deeply interested in the history
of medicine and presented his extensive collection of photographs
of physicians to the College in 1941.
Scope and Contents
This small collection of William N. Bradley's papers consists
of several series. Series 1 contains manuscripts and typescripts
of Bradley's radio broadcasts( 1923-1942); most of these broadcasts concern
matters of child health and hygiene. Bradley's addresses (1918-1934),
also concerned with child health, are preserved in Series 2.
The texts of all of his radio broadcasts and a considerable
portion of his unpublished addresses are preserved in these
two series. The typescript of an unpublished article, "The
fly menace" (1918) and research notes for an article on summer
diarrhoea (circa 1941) are preserved in Series 3. Series 4
contains two miscellaneous items, a vaccination study sponsored
by the Starr Center Association in 1917 and a 1946 report of
the Committee on the Teaching of Child Hygiene of the Philadelphia
Child Health Society.
Within each section, materials have been arranged chronologically.
Conjectural dates for this series were derived from either
the labels of the original folders which were discarded during
processing or Bradley's bibliography.
Provenance
This collection of Bradley's radio broadcasts and addresses
was donated to the Historical Collections of the College of
Physicians of Philadelphia on 23 July 1984 by Mrs. Burlingame
Harvey and Mrs. Carl Anderson, the daughters of William N. Bradley.
The collection was processed in 1989.
1917-1946
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