J. Chester Bradley papers, 1905-1962.
Collection Number: 21-23-1717
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
J. Chester Bradley papers, 1905-1962.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-23-1717
Abstract:
Includes Bradley's A Manual of the Genera of Beetles, North of Mexico; manuscripts
for papers; lecture notes and teaching materials; field notebooks, drawings, and typed
and handwritten notes; personal and professional correspondence; bibliographies; glass
slides and mounted photographs of entomological subjects and expeditions, including
the First Cornell University Biological Expedition to the Okefenoke Swamp in Georgia
and a later expedition through Arizona and California, as well as a few Ithaca area
scenes; photograph albums; includes much material on wasps. Also, correspondence with
J. Henry Comstock and others.
Creator:
Bradley, J. Chester (James Chester), 1884-1975.
Quanitities:
32.8 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
James Bradley was born in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1884. He showed an early interest
in natural history, especially insects, and published his first scientific paper at
age 15. He obtained degrees at Cornell University (A.B. 1906, Ph.D. 1910) and the
University of California (M.S. 1907). He served as an assistant professor of entomology
at Cornell, 1911-1920, and professor and curator of invertebrate zoology, 1920-1952.
As a field biology, Bradley joined or led several expeditions ranging from Canada
to South America, including the joint Cornell-Harvard transcontinental motor car trip
in 1917. He co-authored Insect Life, an insect manual for Boy Scouts, and was chairman of the committee that secured
the site for Camp Barton (a Boy Scout camp near Ithaca, New York).
Includes Bradley's A Manual of the Genera of Beetles, North of Mexico; manuscripts for papers; lecture notes and teaching materials; field notebooks, drawings,
and typed and handwritten notes; personal and professional correspondence; bibliographies;
glass slides and mounted photographs of entomological subjects and expeditions, including
the First Cornell University Biological Expedition to the Okefenoke Swamp in Georgia
and a later expedition through Arizona and California, as well as a few Ithaca area
scenes; photograph albums; includes much material on wasps. Also, correspondence with
J. Henry Comstock and others.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
James C. Bradley papers, #21-23-1717. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Comstock, J. Henry.
New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Entomology
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Places:
California -- Aerial views.
Arizona -- Aerial views.
Georgia -- Aerial views.
California -- Pictorial works.
Arizona -- Pictorial works.
Georgia -- Pictorial works.
Subjects:
Entomologists.
College teachers.
Zoology.
Wasps.
Natural history.
Biology -- Study and teaching.
Entomology -- Study and teaching.
Insects.
Form and Genre Terms:
Negatives.
Photographs.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 |
Correspondence, manuals, reprints
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| Box 2 |
Correspondence, drafts, notes, reprints
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| Box 3 |
Correspondence, drafts, notes, reprints
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| Box 4 |
Drafts, notes, entomological data cards
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| Box 5 |
Correspondence, drafts, notes
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| Box 6 |
Correspondence
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| Box 7 |
Genus/species tags, photographs, manuals, handbooks, notebooks
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| Box 8 |
(A) Correspondence
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| Box 9 |
(B) Correspondence, drawing and prints
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| Box 10 |
(C) Correspondence, organization files
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| Box 11 |
Personal files (index); receipts; taxes, will, funds
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| Box 12 |
Correspondence
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| Box 13 |
Correspondence
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| Box 14 |
Correspondence
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| Box 15 |
Correspondence
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| Box 16 |
Photographs, notes, Bible
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| Box 17 |
Journals, photographs, drafts-essays, correspondence
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| Box 18 |
Notes, reprints, drafts
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| Box 19 |
Draft manuscripts
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| Box 20 |
Correspondence, drafts, reprints
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| Box 21 |
Drafts, manuscripts
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| Box 22 |
Files, notes
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| Box 23 |
Files, typed manuscripts, notes
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| Box 24 |
Files, correspondence
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| Box 25 |
Glass negatives
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| Box 26 |
Glass negatives
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| Box 27 |
Glass negatives
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| Box 28 |
Glass negatives, 1 fld. photographs: Comstock, Mexico, children, cabin, family
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| Box 29 |
(Tube box) Blanchard and Bradley diplomas
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| Box 30 |
Photographs, First C.U. Biological Expedition to Okefonokee Swamp
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