bragdon_family_papers
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Table of Contents
Summary Information ...... 3 Biographical/Historical note ...... 4 Scope and Contents note ...... 6 Administrative Information ...... 7 Related Materials ...... 7 Controlled Access Headings ...... 8 Collection Inventory ...... 9 Series I: General correspondence ...... 9 Series II: Family correspondence, first series ...... 13 Family correspondence, second series ...... 19 Family correspondence, third series ...... 20 Claude Bragdon juvenalia ...... 21 Scrapbooks created by Claude Bragdon...... 65 Charlotte (Wilkinson) Bragdon and Wilkinson Family ...... 67 Eugenie (Julier) Macauley Bragdon...... 70 Henry Wilkinson Bragdon...... 72 Chandler Bragdon...... 73 David Bragdon and Peter Bragdon ...... 74 May Bragdon...... 75 May Bragdon Diaries ...... 76 May Bragdon Theater program scrapbooks ...... 77 George Chandler Bragdon & George Lindsay Bragdon ...... 77 Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon...... 79 Shipherd family...... 81 Oversize material...... 87
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Summary Information
Repository: Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester Creator: Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 Creator: Bragdon, George C. (George Chandler), 1832-1910 Creator: Bragdon, Katherine Shipherd, 1837-1920 Creator: Shipherd, Fayette, -1878 Creator: Bragdon, May, 1865-1947 Creator: Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 Creator: Kent, Norman, 1903-1972 Creator: Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu), 1895-1986 Creator: Cunningham, Kathleen McEnery, 1888-1971 Creator: Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 Creator: Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984 Creator: Roerich, Nicholas, 1874-1947 Creator: Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 Creator: Uspenski#, P. D. (Petr Dem#i#a#novich), 1878-1947 Creator: Van Druten, John, 1901-1957 Creator: Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 Creator: Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 Creator: Bragdon, Henry W. (Henry Wilkinson), 1906-1980 Title: Bragdon family papers ID: A.B81 Date [inclusive]: 1819-1980 Physical Description: 107 boxes Language of the English Material: Language of the English Material:
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Preferred Citation
[Item title, item date], Bragdon Family Papers, A.B81, Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
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Biographical/Historical note
George Chandler Bragdon, Claude Bragdon's father, was born April 29, 1832 at "Chestnut Hill," a well-known station on the Underground Railroad near Lake Ontario in Richland, New York. After attending Union College, he taught briefly before embarking on a career as a newspaperman. He edited a succession of newspapers across upstate New York before he and his family settled in Rochester in 1884. An accomplished poet, ardent Emersonian, and early Theosophist, G.C. Bragdon published a volume of verse, Undergrowth (1895), various pamphlets on New York State, and edited Notable Men of Rochester and Vicinity (1902). He died August 7, 1910.
Katherine Elmina Shipherd was born December 30, 1837 in Walton, New York to Catherine Schermerhorn, a temperance and women's rights advocate, and Fayette Shipherd, a Congregationalist minister and abolitionist. Like the Bragdon's Oswego County home, Fayette Shipherd's house was a station on the Underground Railroad. In 1858, Shipherd moved his family to Ohio where his younger brother John J. Shipherd had been a founder of Oberlin College. Katherine Shipherd taught at Pulaski Seminary in Oswego County, New York prior to her marriage to George C. Bragdon on March 22, 1860. The couple had two children, May (1865-1947) and Claude Fayette (1866-1946). Katherine Bragdon died September 6, 1920.
Claude Fayette Bragdon was born at the Shipherd family home in Oberlin, Ohio on August 1, 1866. His family moved often until shortly after Bragdon and his sister graduated from Oswego High School in 1884, and they settled in Rochester. Bragdon immediately began work as a draftsman for a series of Rochester architects, most notably Charles Ellis, for whom he worked 1886-1889. During this period Bragdon helped to organize the Rochester Architectural Sketch Club and entered numerous architectural competitions, often winning a top prize. In January 1890, Bragdon struck out for New York where he was briefly employed by Bruce Price before returning upstate for a job with the Buffalo firm of Green & Wicks. He returned to Rochester in 1891 to go into partnership with Edwin S. Gordon and William H. Orchard (Gordon, Bragdon and Orchard). Among the firm's most notable projects were competition designs for a New York City Hall and a re-design of Boston's Copley Square, as well as several railroad stations and a commission for a new building for the Rochester Atheneum and Mechanics Institute.
Following his firm's dissolution in 1895, Bragdon went to England, France, and Italy for the summer. Upon his return, he wrote and lectured on his travel experience and on poster art while producing a substantial body of graphic design work for publishers, civic groups, and others. During the 1890s, Bragdon's competition entries and articles, e.g. a series on Colonial architecture in the American
- Page 4- bragdon_family_papers Architect and Building News, earned him notice in national architectural circles. His 1901 lecture to the Architectural League of America, "Mysticism and Architecture," further enhanced his rising status. In January 1897, J. Con Hillman joined Bragdon and his young draftsman James Arnold in practice; the partnership was amicably dissolved in 1904. The firm's important commissions included residences for Nathan Stein (1897) and other members of Rochester society, an addition to the Livingston County Courthouse (1898), and with J. Foster Warner, the Otis Arch (1900).
On November 3, 1902 Bragdon married Charlotte Wilkinson of Syracuse after a two-year engagement. The granddaughter of Samuel Joseph May, a Unitarian minister, abolitionist, and influential reformer, Charlotte graduated from Smith College in 1894 and taught there while obtaining a Master's degree in sociology. After college, she worked at the Hartley House settlement in New York City, served as Secretary and then President of the National League of Women Workers, and lobbied in Albany for legislation to protect women workers. The pair moved into a house of Bragdon's design and had two sons, Henry (1906) and Chandler (1907). Charlotte died on December 15, 1907 shortly after childbirth.
At the time of Charlotte's death, Bragdon was designing the First Universalist Church in Rochester along with several residences. By the following spring, he was immersed in Theosophy and soon founded the Genesee Lodge of the Theosophical Society and his Manas Press, through which he published Theosophical tracts and The Beautiful Necessity (1910), Man the Square (1912), A Primer of Higher Space (1913) and other works. By the end of 1909 he had the biggest and most important commission of his architectural career, a Rochester station for the New York Central Railroad. Other important projects of the 1910s were the Canandaigua Historical Building, the Maplewood Branch of the YMCA, Bevier Building, Police Precinct buildings, Chamber of Commerce, and a garden for George Eastman.
During the three years of the New York Central Railroad Station's construction, Bragdon began writing on hyperspace and met the actor Walter Hampden and Eugenie Julier Macaulay, a widow whom he married July 8, 1913. A mystic who received psychic communications recorded by "automatic writing," Eugenie died November 6, 1920.
In 1915, Bragdon introduced his new system of ornament, which was based upon four-dimensional geometry, in his Scammon lectures at the Art Institute of Chicago and in Projective Ornament. He integrated this ornament in several of his built works, including the Chamber of Commerce and Central YMCA (1917), and the Hunter Street Bridge near Toronto (1918). At the same time, Bragdon was working with the community singing movement as "master of light" for a series of Song and Light festivals in Rochester, New York's Central Park, and other locations. Using projective ornament and color theory, he created complex installations marrying choral music to colored light. These festivals, with stage sets framed by thousands of lanterns and screens fashioned like stained glass windows, were witnessed by audiences of up to 60,000. For the next thirty years, Bragdon explored various means of animating color and light, including "color organs" that linked chromatic and musical scales with electricity to play four-dimensional colored light forms.
Following the death of his second wife in 1920, Bragdon moved to New York. In 1919, Bragdon had designed Walter Hampden's Hamlet, beginning nearly two decades of collaboration in the theater. A pioneer in New Stagecraft, Bragdon's theater designs used "invisible sets," bold color, and inventive lighting. Bragdon formally closed his architectural practice and the Manas Press in 1923, let his Rochester house to his sister May and, in 1924, moved into Manhattan's new high-rise Shelton Hotel, where he lived for the rest of his life. In his final decades, Bragdon continued to publish and lecture on a broad range of topics: architecture, theater, film, color, hyperspace, art, yoga, feminism, and the occult. - Page 5- bragdon_family_papers He built concrete bridges, pursued mobile color, designed book jackets and dance sets, and exhibited stage designs and paintings. Claude Bragdon died at home on September 17, 1946.
May Bragdon (1865-1947), the sister of Claude Bragdon, was born May 16, 1865 in Adams, New York. She went to work at Warner's Safe Cure Company in Rochester in 1885, studied stenography and typing, and became secretary to architect James G. Cutler in 1889. In 1910, she left Cutler's to work as office manager for her brother's architectural practice and his Manas Press. In 1918, economic pressures led Bragdon to reduce his office staff, and May found work with the Employment Office of the Combined Metal Trades (1918-1919), the Clothiers' Exchange and, in 1924, the Gannett Publishing Company, where she remained until her retirement in 1938. May Bragdon died March 21, 1947.
Henry Wilkinson Bragdon, Claude Bragdon's eldest son, was born September 6, 1906. He attended Harvard University (B.A. 1928) and Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught history at Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts (1930-1945) and Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire until his retirement in 1974. Henry W. Bragdon was the author of The Story of a Free People, Woodrow Wilson: the Academic Years, History of a Free Nation, and other works. He and his first wife Katherine Fowler had two sons, David (1932-1998) and Peter (1936- ). His second wife was Jane Hamlin. Henry W. Bragdon died March 15, 1980.
Chandler Bragdon, Claude Bragdon's younger son, was born December 15, 1907. He attended Princeton University and Peterhouse College, Cambridge, and received a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1961. He was History Master at Connecticut's Kent School (1929-30), History Professor at the University of Idaho (1939-44) and the State University College, Plattsburg (1946-65). Chandler and his first wife Elizabeth Fowler had one son, Sam (1943-1983). In 1954, two years after the death of his first wife, Chandler married Sue Roberts Rose. Chandler Bragdon died January 3, 1969.
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Scope and Contents note
The Bragdon Family Papers are predominantly composed of the personal papers of architect, author, and theater designer Claude Fayette Bragdon but also include those of his parents, sister, wives and children. Included is the correspondence of Claude F. Bragdon with his family and others, including Gelett Burgess, Walter Hampden, Norman Kent, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Kathleen Cunningham, Llewelyn Powys, J.B. Priestley, Nikolai Roerich, Alfred Stieglitz, Peter Uspenskii, John Van Druten, Tennessee Williams, and Frank Lloyd Wright. There are also publications and manuscripts by Bragdon; financial and legal papers; photos of buildings he designed; drawings of stage sets; scores for color music; diaries, 1877-79, 1908-12, 1924-46; scrapbooks; records of the Manas Press; and memorabilia. The correspondence and manuscripts of his sons, Henry W. and Chandler, his father George C. Bragdon, and of his wives, including spirit communications of his second wife are included. In addition, the diaries of Kathleen Shipherd Bragdon, 1860-1920; letters and papers of Fayette Shipherd and family; scrapbooks and diaries of May Bragdon; family photographs; and genealogical data; and documents relating to building of Selkirk Bethel Church, Point Ontario, New York, 1848-55 are contained in the collection.
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Administrative Information
Publication Statement Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester
Rush Rhees Library Second Floor, Room 225 Rochester, NY 14627-0055 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.rochester.edu/spaces/rbscp
Restrictions on Access The Bragdon Family Papers is open for research use. Researchers are advised to contact the Rare Collections & Preservation Department prior to visiting. Upon arrival, researchers will also be asked to fill out a registration form and provide photo identification.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note The bulk of the collection was the gift of Henry and Chandler Bragdon with further donations from Peter Bragdon. With the exception of the tile in Box 94, all other architectural salvage from the New York Central Railroad Station was the gift of Douglas U. Baker.
Restrictions on Use In consultation with a curator, reproductions may be made upon request. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from a curator. Researchers are responsible for determining any copyright questions.
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Related Materials
Related Archival Materials note See also: Database of Claude Bragdon correspondence.
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Additional resources:
Bragdon Family Papers Addition.
Claude Bragdon Correspondence Database.
Claude Bragdon Theatre Drawings Database.
Claude Bragdon Architectural Drawings.
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Controlled Access Headings
• Architects • Architecture • Authors, American • Correspondence • Photographs • Diaries • Albums (Books) • Bragdon family • Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 • Bragdon, George C. (George Chandler), 1832-1910 • Bragdon, Katherine Shipherd, 1837-1920 • Shipherd, Fayette, -1878 • Bragdon, May, 1865-1947 • Burgess, Gelett, 1866-1951 • Hampden, Walter, 1879-1955 • Kent, Norman, 1903-1972 • Krishnamurti, J. (Jiddu), 1895-1986 • Cunningham, Kathleen McEnery, 1888-1971 • Powys, Llewelyn, 1884-1939 • Priestley, J. B. (John Boynton), 1894-1984 • Roerich, Nicholas, 1874-1947 • Stieglitz, Alfred, 1864-1946 • Uspenski#, P. D. (Petr Dem#i#a#novich), 1878-1947 • Van Druten, John, 1901-1957 • Williams, Tennessee, 1911-1983 • Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959 • Bragdon, Henry W. (Henry Wilkinson), 1906-1980 • Manas Press
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Collection Inventory
Series I: General correspondence, 1892-1980 Scope and Contents
Consists of the personal, non-family correspondence of Claude Bragdon. Some letters have been indexed. Box 5 contains letters written to Claude Bragdon after his death in September 1946 along with correspondence to/from Henry W. Bragdon regarding his father's life and works.
To search for specific correspondence within Boxes 1-5, consult the Claude Bragdon Correspondence Database.
Title/Description Instances General correspondence, 1892-1897 Box 1 Folder 1
General correspondence, 1898 Box 1 Folder 2
General correspondence, 1899 Box 1 Folder 3
General correspondence, January-March 1900 Box 1 Folder 4
General correspondence, April-May 1900 Box 1 Folder 5
General correspondence, June-December 1900 Box 1 Folder 6
General correspondence, 1901-1902 Box 1 Folder 7
General correspondence, 1903-1907 Box 1 Folder 8
General correspondence, 1908-1909 Box 1 Folder 9
General correspondence, 1910 Box 1 Folder 10
General correspondence, January-November 1911 Box 1 Folder 11
General correspondence, December 1911 Box 1 Folder 12
General correspondence, January 1912 Box 1 Folder 13
General correspondence, February-May 1912 Box 1 Folder 14
General correspondence, June-December 1912 Box 1 Folder 15
General correspondence, 1913-1917 Box 1 Folder 16
General correspondence, 1918 Box 1 Folder 17
General correspondence, 1919 Box 1 Folder 18
General correspondence, 1920 Box 1 Folder 19
General correspondence, 1921 Box 1 Folder 20
General correspondence, 1922-1923 Box 1 Folder 21
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General correspondence, 1924 Box 1 Folder 22
General correspondence, 1925 Box 1 Folder 23
General correspondence, 1926-1927 Box 1 Folder 24
General correspondence, 1928 Box 1 Folder 25
General correspondence, 1929 Box 1 Folder 26
General correspondence, 1930 Box 2 Folder 1
General correspondence, 1931 Box 2 Folder 2
General correspondence, January-June 1932 Box 2 Folder 3
General correspondence, July-November 1932 Box 2 Folder 4
General correspondence, December 1932 Box 2 Folder 5
General correspondence, January-June 1933 Box 2 Folder 6
General correspondence, July-December 1933 Box 2 Folder 7
General correspondence, January-June 1934 Box 2 Folder 8
General correspondence, July-December 1934 Box 2 Folder 9
General correspondence, 1935 Box 2 Folder 10
General correspondence, January-June 1936 Box 2 Folder 11
General correspondence, July-December 1936 Box 2 Folder 12
General correspondence, January-August 1937 Box 2 Folder 13
General correspondence, September-December 1937 Box 2 Folder 14
General correspondence, January-June 1938 Box 2 Folder 15
General correspondence, July 1938 Box 2 Folder 16
General correspondence, August 1938 Box 2 Folder 17
General correspondence, September-October 1938 Box 2 Folder 18
General correspondence, November-December 1938 Box 2 Folder 19
General correspondence, January-April 1939 Box 2 Folder 20
General correspondence, May-August 1939 Box 2 Folder 21
General correspondence, September-December 1939 Box 2 Folder 22
General correspondence, January-May, 1940 Box 3 Folder 1
General correspondence, June-August 1940 Box 3 Folder 2
General correspondence, September-December 1940 Box 3 Folder 3
General correspondence, January 1941 Box 3 Folder 4
General correspondence, February 1941 Box 3 Folder 5
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General correspondence, March 1941 Box 3 Folder 6
General correspondence, April 1941 Box 3 Folder 7
General correspondence, May-June 1941 Box 3 Folder 8
General correspondence, July-August 1941 Box 3 Folder 9
General correspondence, September 1941 Box 3 Folder 10
General correspondence, October 1941 Box 3 Folder 11
General correspondence, November 1941 Box 3 Folder 12
General correspondence, December 1941 Box 3 Folder 13
General correspondence, January-May 1942 Box 3 Folder 14
General correspondence, June-July 1942 Box 3 Folder 15
General correspondence, August-November 1942 Box 3 Folder 16
General correspondence, December 1942 Box 3 Folder 17
General correspondence, January-February 1943 Box 3 Folder 18
General correspondence, March-April 1943 Box 3 Folder 19
General correspondence, May-June 1943 Box 3 Folder 20
General correspondence, July-August 1943 Box 3 Folder 21
General correspondence, September-October 1943 Box 3 Folder 22
General correspondence, November 1943 Box 3 Folder 23
General correspondence, December 1943 Box 3 Folder 24
General correspondence, January 1944 Box 4 Folder 1
General correspondence, February 1944 Box 4 Folder 2
General correspondence, March 1944 Box 4 Folder 3
General correspondence, April 1944 Box 4 Folder 4
General correspondence, May 1944 Box 4 Folder 5
General correspondence, June 1944 Box 4 Folder 6
General correspondence, July 1944 Box 4 Folder 7
General correspondence, August 1944 Box 4 Folder 8
General correspondence, September-October 1944 Box 4 Folder 9
General correspondence, November-December 1944 Box 4 Folder 10
General correspondence, January-February 1945 Box 4 Folder 11
General correspondence, March-May 1945 Box 4 Folder 12
General correspondence, June-August 1945 Box 4 Folder 13
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General correspondence, September-December 1945 Box 4 Folder 14
General correspondence, January-February 1946 Box 4 Folder 15
General correspondence, March-May 1946 Box 4 Folder 16
General correspondence, June-July 1946 Box 4 Folder 17
General correspondence, August-September 1946 Box 4 Folder 18
General correspondence, October-December 1946 Box 4 Folder 19
General correspondence, undated A-L Box 4 Folder 20
General correspondence, undated M-Z Box 4 Folder 21
Claude Bragdon-Cleome Carroll Wadsworth correspondence, Box 4 Folder 22 undated Scope and Contents
Photocopies.
General correspondence, January-March, 1947 Box 5 Folder 1
General correspondence, April-December 1947 Box 5 Folder 2
General correspondence, 1948-1949 Box 5 Folder 3
General correspondence, 1950-1952 Box 5 Folder 4
General correspondence, 1953-1963 Box 5 Folder 5
General correspondence, 1964-1966 Box 5 Folder 6
General correspondence, January-July 1967 Box 5 Folder 7
General correspondence, August-December 1967 Box 5 Folder 8
General correspondence, 1968-1970 Box 5 Folder 9
General correspondence, 1971 Box 5 Folder 10
General correspondence, January-June 1972 Box 5 Folder 11
General correspondence, July-December 1972 Box 5 Folder 12
General correspondence, January-August 1973 Box 5 Folder 13
General correspondence, September-December 1973 Box 5 Folder 14
General correspondence, 1974 Box 5 Folder 15
General correspondence, 1975-1976 Box 5 Folder 16
General correspondence, 1977-1978 Box 5 Folder 17
General correspondence, 1979-1980 Box 5 Folder 18
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Series II: Family correspondence, first series, 1866-1946 Scope and Contents
Consists of letters exchanged between siblings Claude and May Bragdon, their parents George Chandler and Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon, and their aunts, uncles, and cousins. After the death of Katherine E. Bragdon in 1920, the series consists simply of letters exchanged between Claude and May Bragdon.
See Box 73, folder 9 for May Bragdon's index to her brother's letters written to her 1940-1944.
Title/Description Instances Family correspondence, first series, 1866 Box 6 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, 1867-1875 Box 6 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, 1876-1879 Box 6 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, 1880-1887 Box 6 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, 1888-1889 Box 6 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, 1890 Box 6 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, 1891-1894 Box 6 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, January-June 1895 Box 6 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, July 1895 Box 6 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, August-December 1895 Box 6 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, 1896-1899 Box 6 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, January-September 1900 Box 7 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, October-December 1900 Box 7 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, 1901 Box 7 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, 1902-1903 Box 7 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, 1904 Box 7 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, 1905-1906 Box 7 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, 1907-1908 Box 7 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, 1909-1910 Box 7 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, 1911 Box 7 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, 1912 Box 7 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, 1913-1915 Box 7 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, 1916 Box 7 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, 1917 Box 7 Folder 13
Family correspondence, first series, January-July 1918 Box 7 Folder 14
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Family correspondence, first series, August-December 1918 Box 7 Folder 15
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1919 Box 7 Folder 16
Family correspondence, first series, June-December 1919 Box 7 Folder 17
Family correspondence, first series, January-October 1920 Box 7 Folder 18
Family correspondence, first series, November-December 1920 Box 7 Folder 19
Family correspondence, first series, January-March 1921 Box 7 Folder 20
Family correspondence, first series, April-August 1921 Box 7 Folder 21
Family correspondence, first series, September-December 1921 Box 7 Folder 22
Family correspondence, first series, January-March 1922 Box 7 Folder 23
Family correspondence, first series, April-August 1922 Box 7 Folder 24
Family correspondence, first series, September-December 1922 Box 7 Folder 25
Family correspondence, first series, January-April 1923 Box 7 Folder 26
Family correspondence, first series, May-August 1923 Box 7 Folder 27
Family correspondence, first series, September-December 1923 Box 7 Folder 28
Family correspondence, first series, January-March 1924 Box 8 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, April-June 1924 Box 8 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, July-December 1924 Box 8 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1925 Box 8 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, June-December 1925 Box 8 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1926 Box 8 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, June-December 1926 Box 8 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1927 Box 8 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, June-September 1927 Box 8 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, October-December 1927 Box 8 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, June-December 1928 Box 8 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1928 Box 8 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1929 Box 9 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, June-December 1929 Box 9 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, January-May 1930 Box 9 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, June-December 1930 Box 9 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, January-April 1931 Box 9 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, May-August 1931 Box 9 Folder 6
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Family correspondence, first series, September-October 1931 Box 9 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, January-March 1932 Box 9 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, April-June 1932 Box 9 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, July-September 1932 Box 9 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, October-December 1932 Box 9 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, January-March 1933 Box 10 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, April-June 1933 Box 10 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, July-August 1933 Box 10 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, September-October 1933 Box 10 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, November-December 1933 Box 10 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, January-February 1934 Box 10 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, March-April 1934 Box 10 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, May-June 1934 Box 10 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, July-August 1934 Box 10 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, September-October 1934 Box 10 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, November-December 1934 Box 10 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, January-February 1935 Box 11 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, March 1935 Box 11 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, April 1935 Box 11 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, May-June 1935 Box 11 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, July-August 1935 Box 11 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, September-October 1935 Box 11 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, November-December 1935 Box 11 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, January-February 1936 Box 11 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, March-April 1936 Box 11 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, May-August 1936 Box 11 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, September-October 1936 Box 11 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, November 1936 Box 11 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, December 1936 Box 11 Folder 13
Family correspondence, first series, January-February 1937 Box 12 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, March 1937 Box 12 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, April-May 1937 Box 12 Folder 3
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Family correspondence, first series, June-July 1937 Box 12 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, August-September 1937 Box 12 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, October 1937 Box 12 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, November-December 1937 Box 12 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, January-February 1938 Box 12 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, March-April 1938 Box 12 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, May-June 1938 Box 12 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, July-August 1938 Box 13 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, September 1938 Box 13 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, October 1938 Box 13 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, November 1938 Box 13 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, December 1938 Box 13 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, January 1939 Box 14 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, February 1939 Box 14 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, March 1939 Box 14 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, April 1939 Box 14 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, May 1939 Box 14 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, June 1939 Box 14 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, July 1939 Box 14 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, August 1939 Box 14 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, September 1939 Box 14 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, October 1939 Box 14 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, November 1939 Box 14 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, December 1939 Box 14 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, January 1940 Box 15 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, February 1940 Box 15 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, March 1940 Box 15 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, April 1940 Box 15 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, May 1940 Box 15 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, June 1940 Box 15 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, July 1940 Box 15 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, August 1940 Box 15 Folder 8
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Family correspondence, first series, September 1940 Box 15 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, October 1940 Box 15 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, November 1940 Box 15 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, December 1940 Box 15 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, January 1941 Box 15 Folder 13
Family correspondence, first series, February 1941 Box 15 Folder 14
Family correspondence, first series, March 1941 Box 15 Folder 15
Family correspondence, first series, April 1941 Box 15 Folder 16
Family correspondence, first series, May 1941 Box 15 Folder 17
Family correspondence, first series, June 1941 Box 15 Folder 18
Family correspondence, first series, July 1941 Box 16 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, August 1941 Box 16 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, September 1941 Box 16 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, October 1941 Box 16 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, November 1941 Box 16 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, December 1941 Box 16 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, January 1942 Box 16 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, February 1942 Box 16 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, March 1942 Box 16 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, April 1942 Box 16 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, May 1942 Box 16 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, June 1942 Box 16 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, July 1942 Box 16 Folder 13
Family correspondence, first series, August 1942 Box 16 Folder 14
Family correspondence, first series, September 1942 Box 16 Folder 15
Family correspondence, first series, October 1942 Box 16 Folder 16
Family correspondence, first series, November 1942 Box 16 Folder 17
Family correspondence, first series, December 1942 Box 16 Folder 18
Family correspondence, first series, January 1943 Box 17 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, February 1943 Box 17 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, March 1943 Box 17 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, April 1943 Box 17 Folder 4
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Family correspondence, first series, May 1943 Box 17 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, June 1943 Box 17 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, July 1943 Box 17 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, August 1943 Box 17 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, September 1943 Box 17 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, October 1943 Box 17 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, November 1943 Box 17 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, December 1943 Box 17 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, January 1944 Box 17 Folder 13
Family correspondence, first series, February 1944 Box 17 Folder 14
Family correspondence, first series, March 1944 Box 17 Folder 15
Family correspondence, first series, April 1944 Box 17 Folder 16
Family correspondence, first series, May 1944 Box 17 Folder 17
Family correspondence, first series, June 1944 Box 17 Folder 18
Family correspondence, first series, July 1944 Box 18 Folder 1
Family correspondence, first series, August 1944 Box 18 Folder 2
Family correspondence, first series, September 1944 Box 18 Folder 3
Family correspondence, first series, October 1944 Box 18 Folder 4
Family correspondence, first series, November 1944 Box 18 Folder 5
Family correspondence, first series, December 1944 Box 18 Folder 6
Family correspondence, first series, January-February 1945 Box 18 Folder 7
Family correspondence, first series, March 1945 Box 18 Folder 8
Family correspondence, first series, April 1945 Box 18 Folder 9
Family correspondence, first series, May 1945 Box 18 Folder 10
Family correspondence, first series, June 1945 Box 18 Folder 11
Family correspondence, first series, July 1945 Box 18 Folder 12
Family correspondence, first series, August 1945 Box 18 Folder 13
Family correspondence, first series, September 1945 Box 18 Folder 14
Family correspondence, first series, October 1945 Box 18 Folder 15
Family correspondence, first series, November 1945 Box 18 Folder 16
Family correspondence, first series, December 1945 Box 18 Folder 17
Family correspondence, first series, January-June 1946 Box 18 Folder 18
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Family correspondence, first series, July 1946 Box 18 Folder 19
Family correspondence, first series, August 1946 Box 18 Folder 20
Family correspondence, first series, September 1946 Box 18 Folder 21
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Family correspondence, second series, 1913-1968 Scope and Contents
Consists of letters exchanged between Claude Bragdon and his sons Henry and Chandler Bragdon; their aunt May Bragdon; Henry's sons, Peter and David; and Chandler's son Sam.
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Boxes 5-6.
Title/Description Instances Family correspondence, second series, 1913-1919 Box 19 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, 1920 Box 19 Folder 2
Family correspondence, second series, 1921 Box 19 Folder 3
Family correspondence, second series, 1922 Box 19 Folder 4
Family correspondence, second series, 1923 Box 19 Folder 5
Family correspondence, second series, 1924 Box 19 Folder 6
Family correspondence, second series, 1925 Box 19 Folder 7
Family correspondence, second series, 1926 Box 19 Folder 8
Family correspondence, second series, January-June 1927 Box 19 Folder 9
Family correspondence, second series, July-December 1927 Box 19 Folder 10
Family correspondence, second series, January-July 1928 Box 19 Folder 11
Family correspondence, second series, August-December 1928 Box 19 Folder 12
Family correspondence, second series, January-July 1929 Box 20 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, August-December 1929 Box 20 Folder 2
Family correspondence, second series, January-June 1930 Box 20 Folder 3
Family correspondence, second series, July-December 1930 Box 20 Folder 4
Family correspondence, second series, 1931 Box 20 Folder 5
Family correspondence, second series, January-October 1932 Box 20 Folder 6
Family correspondence, second series, November-December 1932 Box 20 Folder 7
Family correspondence, second series, January-April 1933 Box 20 Folder 8
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Family correspondence, second series, January-March 1934 Box 21 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, April 1934 Box 21 Folder 2
Family correspondence, second series, May-August 1934 Box 21 Folder 3
Family correspondence, second series, September-December 1934 Box 21 Folder 4
Family correspondence, second series, January-March 1935 Box 21 Folder 5
Family correspondence, second series, April 1935 Box 21 Folder 6
Family correspondence, second series, May-June 1935 Box 21 Folder 7
Family correspondence, second series, July 1935 Box 21 Folder 8
Family correspondence, second series, August 1935 Box 21 Folder 9
Family correspondence, second series, September-October 1935 Box 21 Folder 10
Family correspondence, second series, November-December 1935 Box 21 Folder 11
Family correspondence, second series, January 1936 Box 22 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, January-March 1937 Box 23 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, January-April 1940 Box 24 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, January-March 1942 Box 25 Folder 1
Family correspondence, second series, January-April 1945 Box 26 Folder 1 Scope and Contents
After Claude Bragdon's death on September 17, 1946, correspondence is mainly between brothers Henry and Chandler Bragdon.
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Family correspondence, third series, 1911-1916 Scope and Contents
Consists of letters exchanged between Claude Bragdon and Eugenie (Julier) Macaulay. Born "Augusta Eugenie," called Eugenie, she was a daughter of Louisa Henrietta Vaillant and American Express executive Henry S. Julier. On October 16, 1902 she married Scotsman John Macaulay in New York: she was widowed by 1910. Her siblings were Constantine (b. 1875), Henry V. (b. 1882) and Arnett (b. 1884). Eugenie was introduced to Claude Bragdon by his brother-in-law, architect Henry Wilkinson who was working on the Julier estate in Mt. Kisco, New York. After a courtship of several years, Claude and Eugenie were married July 8, 1913. During her marriage to Bragdon, and perhaps earlier, Eugenie practiced automatic writing. Following her death on November 16, 1920, Bragdon published a selection of these writings, entitled Oracle.
Title/Description Instances Family correspondence, third series, 1911 Box 27 Folder 1
Family correspondence, third series, September 1-15, 1912 Box 28 Folder 1
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Family correspondence, third series, January 1913 Box 29 Folder 1
Family correspondence, third series, January-April 1915 Box 30 Folder 1
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Claude Bragdon juvenalia, 1872-1883 Scope and Contents
Original artwork, manuscripts, and presswork. See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 1:1.
Title/Description Instances Original artwork, 1872-1876 Box 31 Folder 1
Still life of five containers, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "For Dear Grandpa's Birthday present, 1872. Claudie"
Building, silo and fence by river, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Claudie, April 6, 1873."
Printed, published illustrations of Barnum's circus, hand- colored, in envelope. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Barnum's circus pictures. Colored and cut out by my Boy. Watertown June 1873"
Train engine, pencil and watercolor. On verso, in Katherine Bragdon's hand "Drawn by Claudie. July, 1873"
Potted hyacinth, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "My Hyacinth Claudie, March 30, 1874."
Storefronts and goldfish bowl on table, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Claudie, April 11, 1875."
Map of North America, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Claude, 1876."
Train car, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Claudie, January 23, 1876."
Map of North America, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Claudie, November 12, 1876."
"Railroad Guide", January 1855. Physical Description: Illustrated manuscript booklet, in pencil, stitched and pinned.
Embroidery on paper, 1872-1873 Box 31 Folder 2
"Dear Papa." On wrapper, in Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Made for Papa's Christmas Present by Claudie. Watertown, December 25, 1872."
"God is Love." On wrapper in Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Grandpa", May 1, 1873
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Lyre "For my mother," undated.
"Holy Bible" in blue silk wrapper, undated.
Original poems and broadsides, 1873-1875 Box 31 Folder 3
"In the Moonlight," pencil. On verso in Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Claudie, January 23, 1873."
"Mild Farmer Jones and the Naughty Boy", January 30, 1874. Physical Description: Pencil. On verso in Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Declaimed by my Boy Claudie at Dansville, New York Jan'y 30, 1874, at Miss Van Allen's school. Repeated by request amid cheering."
Program, "King John," pencil, April 20, 1874.
Program, "To the Public," pencil. Dated in Katherine Bragdon's hand, August 1875.
Periodical, For Children, 1874 Box 31 Folder 4
No. 1, November 29, 1874. Physical Description: Stitched.
Vol. 1, No. 1, 1874. Physical Description: Half of text written backwards; pinned.
No. 2, December 1, 1874. Physical Description: Stitched.
No. 3, December 1874. Physical Description: Title written backward; stitched.
No. 4, [text beginning with "Fairys" (Fairies)], 1874 Physical Description: Stitched.
No. 4, [text beginning with "The Old Farm Gate"], 1874 Physical Description: Stitched.
No. 5, December 2, 1874. Physical Description: Stitched. Likely incomplete, only two leaves including title page.
Periodical, Household Stories, 1875-1876. Box 31 Folder 5
November 24, 1875. Physical Description: Tri-fold.
November 25, 1875. Physical Description: Single folio.
November 27, 1875. Physical Description: Single folio.
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November 29, 1875. Physical Description: Single folio.
November 30, 1875. Physical Description: Single folio.
November 1875. Physical Description: Cover only.
December 13, 1875. Physical Description: Stitched.
December 14, 1875. Physical Description: Single folio.
Vol. II, No. 1, November 11, 1876. Physical Description: Stitched.
Vol. II, No. 2, 1876. Physical Description: Stitched.
Undated. Physical Description: Stitched with cover wrappers.
Manuscript, The Story of the Hermit, circa 1876. Box 31 Folder 6 Physical Description: Four pages, in pencil.
Printed The Story of the Hermit, December 1876. Box 31 Folder 7 Physical Description: 4 copies. Typeset, printed and "Published by C.F. Bragdon & Co., Watertown N.Y., Christmas, 1876", with hand-drawn illustrations. One copy inscribed: "From Claude to Mama."
Original drawings, 1877-1878. Box 31 Folder 8
Castle and full moon, in pencil. Dated in Katherine Bragdon's hand, January, 1877.
"Shakespeare Illustrated," pencil and ink. On verso in Katherine Bragdon's hand "Claude's first pen picture, Rochester", August 2, 1877.
Toad beneath mushroom with bottle, in pencil, August 31, 1877.
Political cartoon, in pencil. Dated in Katherine Bragdon's hand, October 1877.
House, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand, "Mapleside 1878"
Boy seated on chair, in pencil. In Katherine Bragdon's hand "Martin Devine" and date, August 2, 1878.
Illustrated song lyric, Ring, Ring de Banjo, in pencil, December 1878.
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Man with hat and mustache, in pencil, 1878.
Three figure drawings in pencil on folio from sketchbook, August 1878.
Printed periodical, Household Stories, Vol. 1, No. 1-3, January Box 31 Folder 9 1877.
Vol. I, No. 1, January 8, 1877.
Vol. I, No. II, January 15, 1877. Physical Description: 3 copies, stitched.
Vol. I, No. III, January 29, 1877. Physical Description: 3 copies, 2 stitched.
Printed periodical,Household Stories, Vol. 1, No. 1-5, May- Box 31 Folder 10 September 1877.
Vol. I, No. 1, May 16, 1877. Physical Description: 3 copies, stitched in printed yellow wrappers.
Vol. I, No. 2, June 16, 1877. Physical Description: 2 copies, stitched in printed yellow wrappers.
Vol. I, No. 3, July 1877. Physical Description: 4 copies, stitched in printed tan wrappers.
Vol. I, No. 4, August 1877. Physical Description: 9 copies, stitched in printed tan wrappers.
Vol. I, No. 5, September 1877. Physical Description: 2 copies, illustrated, stitched in printed tan wrappers.
[undated, un-numbered] A Little About Germany. Physical Description: No covers, stitched.
Printed periodical, "Johnnie's Valentine" by Walter B. Shipherd, Box 31 Folder 11 1877. Physical Description: 2 copies in printed tan wrapper, 1 copy in printed pink wrapper.
Printed playbills, 1877-1878. Box 31 Folder 12
"Mischief in the Studio" (2 copies, undated).
"Bunnell & Bragdon's Grand Circus," (2 copies), June 23, 1877
"A Song By the Clan," etc., November 31, 1877.
Wilson & "Sheppard's Grand Show", June 1, 1878.
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Printed ephemera, circa 1877. Box 31 Folder 13
Claude Bragdon calling card.
Cover wrapper, The Fortunes of Philip Thompson, 1877.
Printed periodical, Household Stories, Vol. 2, No. 1, (3 copies), Box 31 Folder 14 September 1878.
Proof sheets, printed periodical, Household Stories, undated. Box 31 Folder 15
Printed periodical, The Home Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, (2 copies), Box 31 Folder 16 July, 1878.
Banjo music, manuscript, 1878-1880. Box 31 Folder 17
"Susanna,", December 29, 1878.
"Comin thru the rye."
Music with illustration of man with oar.
"Hoop de dooden doo and Juba,", December 1878.
"I'm my Daddy's Only Son,", 1878.
"Pink Waltz", August 1880.
"Boston Jig", August 1880.
"Clog Hornpipe", August 1880.
"Kate Kearny Waltz", August 1880.
"Captain Jinks", August 1880.
"Trick Solo", August 1880.
"Massas in de Cold Ground", August 1880.
Jenny's Polka", August 1880.
"Niagara Polka", August 1880.
Sketchbook, 1878. Box 31 Folder 18
Original drawings, 1879. Box 31 Folder 19
Happy new year calling card (ink), 1879.
Boy on fence (ink), 1879.
Couple arm in arm (pencil), 1879.
Coleman's new cottage, Hemlock Lake (pencil), June 29, 1879.
Rennett's boat house (pencil), June 29, 1879.
Sketch of Chestnut Hill (pencil), August, 1879.
African Pinafore (pencil), September 23, 1879.
Bird and branch (watercolor), December 30, 1879.
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Chestnut Hill sketches, July 1880. Box 31 Folder 20
Original drawings, 1880. Box 31 Folder 21
Mill and bridge (ink and wash), March 13, 1880.
Flowers with insects (ink), March 30, 1880.
Metamorphosis portrait (pencil), May 6, 1880.
Chestnut Hill (pencil), May 22, 1880.
Gate and barn (pencil), July 3, 1880.
Barns at Chestnut Hill, July 3, 1880.
Partial sketchbook (3 folios, pencil), August 1880.
Locomotive on calling card (pencil), April 8, 1880.
Original drawings, 1881. Box 31 Folder 22
Banjo (ink), July 27, 1881.
Office boy (pencil), August 1881.
Backstage scene (ink wash), October 8, 1881.
"A Seasonable Sketch" (ink), Election Day, 1881.
Rocking chair (ink), November 12, 1881.
Tugboat and handkerchief on sewing box (ink), November 13, 1881.
"The Noblest Roman of Them All" (ink), November 1881.
Town crier (ink), November 13, 1881.
Table stand (ink), December 11, 1881.
Banjo (ink wash), Christmas 1881.
Original drawings, undated, circa 1875-1881. Box 31 Folder 23
Duckling (watercolor and ink)
Christmas sketches (pencil)
Circus acrobats (ink)
Lakeside in moonlight (pencil)
Banjo (ink)
Two men and dog (ink, 2 versions)
Crosshatching (ink)
Illustrated manuscript, "Scarbrand the Skull Hunter of Venice", Box 31 Folder 24 circa 1882.
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Physical Description: 14 pages.
Calligraphy sample, January 1, 1883. Box 31 Folder 25
Manuscript, "Machine Poetry", 1883. Box 31 Folder 26 Physical Description: 1 leaf.
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Claude Bragdon's boyhood diaries, 1877-1883. Box 32
1877, 1878, 1879-1880. Folder 1
1881-1883 (contains many ink illustrations). Folder 2
Henry Wilkinson Bragdon; notes on Claude Bragdon's boyhood Folder 3 diaries.
Published version of Claude Bragdon's boyhood diary, edited by Folder 4 Henry Wilkinson Bragdon, Watertown, N.Y., 1974.
Newspaper excerpts of Claude Bragdon's boyhood diary, printed Folder 5 in the Watertown Daily Times, undated. Scope and Contents
See also: Oversize folder 1.
Diaries and pocket memoranda books, 1886-1946. Box 33 Physical Description: 46 volumes. (NOTE: Volumes from 1894, 1900-1901; 1903-1907; 1913-1923, 1940 are not in the collection.)
Manuscripts: short stories and essays. Box 34 Arrangement
The following manuscripts are in chronological order. When known, the place and date of publication are given. Undated manuscripts are in alphabetical order at the end of the sequence. See Box 31 for mss. before 1885.
A Poem, circa 1895 Folder 1 Physical Description: Carbon typescript with manuscript corrections, manuscript poem laid in. Bound in manuscript illustrated covers with brads. Gelett Burgess called Claude Bragdon "Bill".
Notes for essay on Henry James, January 1913 Folder 2 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"The Amulet." Undated. Folder 3 Physical Description: 13 pages.
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Scope and Contents
Short story.
"The Sea Maiden." Undated. Folder 4 Physical Description: 18 pages. Scope and Contents
Short story.
"The Angel at the Fountain." Undated. Folder 5 Physical Description: 11 pages. Scope and Contents
Short story.
"Death and the Juggler/Retreat from Fear." rewritten circa 1942, Folder 6 1920 Physical Description: 4 versions, all typescripts; 2 with manuscript corrections and retitled "Retreat From Fear". Scope and Contents
Short story.
"A Meddler in Destinies", circa 1920 Folder 7 Physical Description: 8 pages. Scope and Contents
Fragment of a novel.
"An Art of Light", circa 1917. Folder 8 Physical Description: 20 pages. Physical Description: title: American Architect, Physical Description: date: June 13, 1917 Physical Description: extref: Box 40, folder 2
"Street Lighting", circa 1920. Folder 9 Physical Description: 11 pages. Physical Description: title: Christian Science Monitor, Physical Description: date: July 9, 1920.
Light and Lens Series, circa 1922-23. Folder 10 Physical Description: 12 pages. Physical Description: title: Wellsworth Merchandiser,
"The Marriage of East and West", circa 1923. Folder 11
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Physical Description: 3 pages. Physical Description: title: Orient, Physical Description: date: February 1923
"The Spirit of the Nile", circa 1923. Folder 12 Physical Description: 7 pages. Physical Description: title: Orient, Physical Description: date: February, 1923
"More Ornament from Magic Squares", circa 1927. Folder 13 Physical Description: 12 pages. Physical Description: title: Architectural Record Physical Description: date: December, 1927
"Catharsis", February 1930. Folder 14 Physical Description: 10 pages. Scope and Contents
Short story.
"Jack Black and his Jail Birds." Folder 15 Physical Description: 5 pages. Physical Description: title: New York World Physical Description: date: December 21, 1930 Physical Description: title: Syracuse Herald, Physical Description: date: January 5, 1931
"Intimations of Immortality," rewritten as "Death," undated. Folder 16 (1931?) Physical Description: 3 pages. 2 pages.
"East is West and West is East," circa 1931. Folder 17 Physical Description: 6 pages. Physical Description: title: "Life's Hall of Mirrors" Physical Description: title: Thinker, Physical Description: date: February, 1931
"What a Piece of Work is Man!" circa 1931. Folder 18 Physical Description: 3 pages.
"First Impressions," circa 1931. Folder 19 Physical Description: 4 pages.
"Chinese Wisdom," circa 1932. Folder 20 Physical Description: 3 pages. Physical Description: title: The Secret of the Golden Flower, - Page 29- bragdon_family_papers
Physical Description: title: New York Times Book Review, Physical Description: date: January 10, 1932.
"As I Remember It: Bill", 1932. Folder 21 Physical Description: 3 pages. Physical Description: title: Outlook and Independent, Physical Description: date: January 20, 1932.
"As I Remember It: Glimpses of Other Lives." Folder 22 Physical Description: 3 pages. Physical Description: title: Outlook and Independent, Physical Description: date: January 20, 1932.
"As I Remember It: Photographing a Thought." Folder 23 Physical Description: 3 pages. Physical Description: title: Outlook and Independent, Physical Description: date: January 27, 1932.
"As I Remember It: Stories of Old New York." Folder 24 Physical Description: 3 pages. Physical Description: title: Outlook and Independent, Physical Description: date: January 27, 1932.
"Putting on a Play", April 1932. Folder 25 Physical Description: 11 pages.
"As I Remember It: Sanatarium Notes", 1932. Folder 26 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"Rescued from Time", circa 1932. Folder 27 Physical Description: 11 pages.
"Apropos of Nothing: Love Conquers Death,", circa 1932. Folder 28 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"What I Remember of Annie Besant", circa 1933. Folder 29 Physical Description: 3 pages.
"The Animated Picture." Folder 30 Physical Description: 12 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Scribner's Magazine,July, 1934 as "Mickey Mouse and What He Means." Tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:16.
"Yoga." Folder 31
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Physical Description: 10 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in The Forum, October 1934. Tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:16.
"The Prostitution of the Mind." Folder 32 Physical Description: 10 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Philosophical Review,Winter 1935. Tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:17.
"Color Music,", 1936. Folder 33 Physical Description: 15 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Theosophist,May 1936.
"The Star of Perfection." Folder 34 Physical Description: 5 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Journal of Calendar Reform,December 1936.
"Art Survey for 1938." Folder 35 Physical Description: 7 pages.
"Art Trends in America in Nineteen-Thirty-Nine." Folder 36 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"Three Recent Paintings by Nicholas Roerich", circa 1939. Folder 37 Physical Description: 1 page.
Five contributions for Henry Clune's "Seen and Heard" column Folder 38 published in Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, 1943-1944.
Concerning More Lives Than One. Physical Description: 4 pages.
Concerning change in careers from architecture to theater design. Physical Description: 5 pages.
Concerning Harvey Ellis. Physical Description: 4 pages.
Concerning Lyceum Theatre. Physical Description: 4 pages.
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"Stage Door Canteen,", September 13, 1943. Physical Description: 6 pages.
"A Game of Chess," circa 1939-1940. Folder 39 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"Francis H. Bacon, 1857-1940." Folder 40 Physical Description: 3 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Architectural Forum,March, 1940. Photocopy of tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:22.
"Orchestra Settings,", 1940. Folder 41 Physical Description: 3 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Pencil Points,June, 1940. Photocopy of tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:22.
"The Readiness is All,", 1942. Folder 42 Physical Description: 2 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Argosy,September 1942. Tear sheet & photocopy in A.B81, Box 38A:24.
"Madame Margaret Mamlok, Hand Analyst,", 1943. Folder 43 Physical Description: 5 pages. Scope and Contents
Published as "The Buried Wisdom of the Ages; a Study of Hand Analysis" in Southern Israelite,October 1943. Photocopy of tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:25.
"The Problems of a Propagandist,", 1944. Folder 44 Physical Description: 8 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in American Theosophist,March 1944. Photocopy of tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:26.
"News from Nowhere,", circa 1944. Folder 45 Physical Description: 4 pages.
"Evil and Eve,", 1944. Folder 46 Physical Description: 7 pages.
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Extract of talk delivered by CFB to Rochester Historical Society, November 8, 1944 and published in American Theosophist,May 1945.
"Music: Cosmic and Microcosmic,", 1945. Folder 47 Physical Description: 5 pages 3 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in American Theosophist,May 1945. Tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:27.
"The Seeing I,", 1945. Folder 48 Physical Description: 6 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in American Theosophist,July, 1945. Tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:27.
"Animation Comes of Age,", 1945. Folder 49 Physical Description: 6 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Telescreen,September, 1945. Tear sheet in A.B81, Box 38A:27, complete issue A.B81, Box 40:15.
"On Being Bored,", 1945. Folder 50 Physical Description: 4 pages.
Existence and Location of Copies: Existence and Location of Copies
Photocopy in A.B81, Box 38A:27.
Scope and Contents
Published as "I Refuse to be Bored" in Your Life,December, 1945.
"In Vishnu-land What Avatar?" Folder 51 Physical Description: 3 pages. Scope and Contents
Published in Biosophical Review, Winter, 1945.
"The Soul of Things,", 1946. Folder 52 Physical Description: 4 pages.
Existence and Location of Copies:
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Photocopy in A.B81, Box 38:13.
Scope and Contents
Published in American Theosophist,March, 1946.
"Don't be a Silver-Apron-String Mother,", 1946. Folder 53 Physical Description: 4 pages.
Existence and Location of Copies: Existence and Location of Copies
Photocopy in A.B81, Box 38:13.
Scope and Contents
Published in Your Life as "Advice to Mothers."
"On Certain Theatrical Superstitions,", 1946. Folder 54 Physical Description: 5 pages.
Existence and Location of Copies: Existence and Location of Copies
Photocopy in A.B81, Box 38A:28.
Scope and Contents
Published as "Queer Stage Superstitions" in Your Life,June, 1946.
"Nervous Exhaustion,"1946. Folder 55 Physical Description: 1 page. Scope and Contents
Published in American Theosophist,July, 1946. Photocopy in A.B81, Box 38A:28.
"And What of Death?" undated. Folder 56 Physical Description: 5 pages.
"Concerning Greek Architecture," undated. Folder 57 Physical Description: 4 pages.
"The Etiquette of the Heart," undated. Folder 58 Physical Description: 3 pages.
"The Gift of a Jewel," undated. Folder 59 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"The Golden Bowl," undated. Folder 60
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Physical Description: 1 page.
"Habit", undated. Folder 61 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"An Interview with Henry Ford," undated. Folder 62 Physical Description: 1 page
"The King-Coit School," undated. Folder 63 Physical Description: 3 pages.
"Laughter: the Universal Solvent," undated. Folder 64 Physical Description: 2 pages.
"The Lesson of the Master," undated. Folder 65 Physical Description: 4 pages. Scope and Contents
Concerning Louis Sullivan.
"Mathematics as an Aid to Design," undated. Folder 66 Physical Description: 10 pages.
"Opening Night," undated. Folder 67 Physical Description: 4 pages.
"Telephonic Bad Manners," undated. Folder 68 Physical Description: 3 pages.
"Tipping over the Lamp," undated. Folder 69 Physical Description: 2 pages.
Poems by CFB, undated. Folder 70
Haiku
The Poet Encounters Primavera Opposite The Players Club
Boys' Play (3 copies.)
"On Color and Form in Setting Shakespeare's Plays." Folder 71 Physical Description: 4 pages.
Miscellaneous fragments. Folder 72
Manuscript, ., c. 1944 Physical Description: 4 pages.
"The Flame," undated. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Concerning Alfred Stieglitz, undated. Physical Description: 1 page.
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Concerning Space, time. Physical Description: 1 page.
"Spirit is eternal," Physical Description: 2 pages.
Manuscripts: addresses, introductions and unpublished books. Box 35
"An Introduction to Yoga,", November 20, 1932. Folder 1 Physical Description: 4 pages.
"How to Make Magic Squares,", November 1938. Folder 2 Physical Description: 13 pages. Scope and Contents
Possible script for short film.
"Reminiscences of the Rochester of the Eighties." Lecture given Folder 3 as "Reminiscences of Old Rochester" to the Rochester Historical Society, December 5, 1945. Physical Description: 10 pages.
Message to Claude Bragdon Society, Mexico City, re: Man the Folder 4 Square, circa 1923. Physical Description: 1 page.
"Buddha's Birthday Address." Talk on White Lotus Day, May 16, Folder 5 undated. Physical Description: 2 pages.
"The Theatre." A talk before the [Princeton] Triangle Club, Folder 6 undated. Physical Description: 3 pages.
Introduction [for book of psychic communications by Olga Folder 7 Rosmanith]. Physical Description: 6 pages.
Introduction to Consciously Creating Circumstances, by George Folder 8 Winslow Plummer, 1937. Physical Description: 1 page.
"A Note on the Wax Sculpture of Miss Ethel Mundy." Folder 9 Introduction to exhibit catalogue Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts., May, 1944. Physical Description: 3 pages.
Introduction to Cobblestone Architecture by Carl Schmidt, 1944. Folder 10 Physical Description: 2 pages.
Introduction and Commentary for Sensitive Horizons by Alice Folder 11 Sprague, 1946.
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Physical Description: 24 pages; 11 pages.
Pantomime in the Theatre by unknown author. Translation from Folder 12 French [?] Physical Description: 31 pages. Scope and Contents
Chapters 1-2, 4-6.
Delphic Woman, (12 pp. typescript.), 1936. Folder 13 Physical Description: 12 pages. Scope and Contents
Title page, introduction, contents, preface and essay.
The Time Illusion. Folder 14 Physical Description: 4 pages. Scope and Contents
Title page, table of contents, and introduction.
Traite Elementaire de L'Hyper-Espace. Translation of Primer of Folder 15 Higher Space in 3 parts. Physical Description: Original typescripts.
Miscellaneous manuscripts for selections of More Lives Than Folder 16 One. Physical Description: 6 pages.
The Brotherhood of Consolation, by Claude Bragdon and Wilfred Folder 17 Brandon [Edith Ellis]. Physical Description: 140 pages.
The Veil of Maya. Folder 18 Physical Description: 118 pages.
The Veil of Maya. Folder 19 Physical Description: 129 pages.
"The Illusion of Death." Additional chapter of The Veil of Maya. Folder 20 Physical Description: 13 pages.
"Quotations from the Upanishads." Used in The Veil of Maya. Folder 21 Physical Description: 13 pages.
Notes for "Philosophy of Architecture," ultimately incorporated into Box 36 The Beautiful Necessity.
Vol. 1, February 1-March 29, 1891. Folder 1
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Physical Description: Illustrated manuscript bound in commercial notebook.
Vol. 2, March 31-May 1, 1891. Folder 2 Physical Description: Illustrated manuscript bound in commercial notebook.
Vol. 3, May 1, 1891-January 1, 1892. Folder 3 Physical Description: Illustrated manuscript bound in commercial notebook.
Preparatory notes, 1893. Folder 4 Physical Description: Illustrated manuscript bound in commercial notebook.
Notebook, January 1, 1909-1911. Folder 5 Physical Description: Manuscript bound in commercial notebook.
The Arch Lectures, (Mimeographs), 1940. Box 37
Vol. I, Address delivered at the Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., Box 37 Folder 1 August 13, 1940. Physical Description: 9 pages.
Vol. 2, Address delivered at the Wellesley Club, N.Y., August 21, Folder 2 1940. Physical Description: 8 pages.
Vol. 3, Address delivered at the Wellesley Club, N.Y., August 28, Folder 3 1940. Physical Description: 9 pages.
Vol. 4, Address delivered at the Wellesley Club, N.Y., September Folder 4 4, 1940. Physical Description: 13 pages.
Vol. 5, Address delivered at the Wellesley Club, N.Y., September Folder 5 12, 1940. Physical Description: 11 pages.
Vol. 6, Address delivered at the Hotel Barclay, N.Y., September Folder 6 18, 1940. Physical Description: 9 pages.
Vol. 7, Address delivered at the Hotel Barclay, N.Y., September Folder 7 27, 1940. Physical Description: 9 pages.
Vol. 8, Address delivered at 170 East 78th St., N.Y., October 2, Folder 8 1940.
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Physical Description: 10 pages.
Vol. 9, Address delivered at 170 East 78th St., N.Y., October ? Folder 9 1940. Physical Description: 7 pages.
Vol. 10, Address delivered at 170 East 78th St., N.Y., October 13, Folder 10 1940. Physical Description: 6 pages.
Vol. XIV, "Dynamic Symmetry." Address delivered at 170 East Folder 11 78th St., N.Y., November 13, 1940. Physical Description: 7 pages.
Vol. 15, November 20, 1940 Folder 12 Physical Description: 7 pages.
Vol. 16, Address delivered at 170 East 78th St., N.Y., November Folder 13 27, 1940. Physical Description: 5 pages.
Vol. 17, Address delivered at 170 East 78th St., N.Y., December Folder 14 4, 1940. Physical Description: 6 pages.
Vol. 18, Address delivered at 170 East 78th St., N.Y., December Folder 15 18, 1940. Physical Description: 6 pages.
Periodical publications, 1888-1918. Box 38 Scope and Contents
Tear sheets and photocopies.
1888-1889. Folder 1
1890. Folder 2
1891. Folder 3
1892. Folder 4
1893. Folder 5
1894. Folder 6
1895. Folder 7
1896. Folder 8
1897. Folder 9
1898. Folder 10
1899. Folder 11
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1900. Folder 12
1901. Folder 13
1902. Folder 14
1903. Folder 15
1904. Folder 16
1905-1906. Folder 17
1907. Folder 18
1908. Folder 19
1909. Folder 20
1910. Folder 21
1911. Folder 22
1912. Folder 23
1913. Folder 24
1914. Folder 25
1915. Folder 26
1916. Folder 27
1917. Folder 28
1918. Folder 29
Periodical publications, 1919-1946. Box 38A Scope and Contents
Tear sheets and photocopies.
1919. Folder 1
1920. Folder 2
1921. Folder 3
1922. Folder 4
1923. Folder 5
1924. Folder 6
1925. Folder 7
1926. Folder 8
1927. Folder 9
1928. Folder 10
1929. Folder 11 - Page 40- bragdon_family_papers
1930. Folder 12
1931. Folder 13
1932. Folder 14
1933. Folder 15
1934. Folder 16
1935. Folder 17
1936. Folder 18
1937. Folder 19
1938. Folder 20
1939. Folder 21
1940. Folder 22
1941. Folder 23
1942. Folder 24
1943. Folder 25
1944. Folder 26
1945. Folder 27
1946. Folder 28
Periodicals with contributions by Claude Bragdon, 1894-1904. Box 39
American Architect & Building News, Vol. 43, No. 952, March 24, Folder 1 1894.
American Architect & Building News, Vol. 46, No. 981, October Folder 2 13, 1894.
Chap-Book, Index Vol. 1, May 15-November 1, and No. 12, Folder 2A November 1, 1894, 1894
Chap-Book, Vol. 4, No. 2, December 1, 1895. Folder 3
Chap-Book, Vol. 1, No. 12, November 1, 1899. Folder 4
The Art Student, Vol. 7, No. 39, January 1896. Folder 5
The Fly Leaf, No. 2, January 1896. Folder 6
The Home Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 2, February 1897. Folder 7
The Lotus, Vol. 3, No. 10, October 1897. Folder 8
American Architect & Building News, Vol. 72, No. 1324, May 11, Folder 9 1901.
House and Garden, Vol. 2, No. 1, January 1902. Folder 10
House and Garden, Vol. 2, No. 2, February 1902. Folder 11 - Page 41- bragdon_family_papers
House and Garden, Vol. 2, No. 3, March 1902. Folder 12
House and Garden, Vol. 2, No. 4, April 1902. Folder 13
House and Garden, Vol. 2, No. 5, May 1902. Folder 14
House and Garden, Vol. 2, No. 6, June 1902. Folder 15
The Reader, Vol. 3, No. 1, December 1903. Folder 16
The Critic, Vol. 44, No. 2, February 1904. Folder 17
The Book Lover, Vol. 5, No. 5, May 1904. Folder 18
Good Housekeeping, Vol. 38, No. 5, May 1904. Folder 19
Periodicals with contributions by Claude Bragdon, 1904-1945. Box 40 Scope and Contents
See Oversize Box 11.
House Beautiful, Vol. 16, No. 1, June 1904. Folder 1
American Architect, Vol. 3, No. 2169, June 1917. Folder 2
Architectural Forum, Vol. 27, No. 6, December 1917. Folder 3
American Architect, Vol. 112, No. 2192, December 26, 1917. Folder 4
White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs, Vol. 9, No. 4, Folder 5 August 1918.
The Messenger, Vol. 7, No. 7, December 1919. Folder 6
The Messenger, Vol. 7, No. 8, January, 1920. Folder 7
The Messenger, Vol. 7, No. 10, March 1920. Folder 8
The New Orient, Vol. 2, No. 1, May-June 1924. Folder 9
The New Orient, Vol. 3, No. 3, January 1927. Folder 10
ArchitecturalRecord, Vol. 62, No. 6, December 1927. Folder 11
Pencil Points, Vol. 12, No. 10, October 1931. Folder 12
Architect's World, Vol. 1, No. 3, April 1938. Folder 13
Telescreen, Vol. 14, No. 2, September 1945. Folder 14
Publishing records: A.A. Knopf, Manas Press, Creative Age Press. Box 41
Correspondence with A.A. Knopf and Co. (indexed). See Claude Folder 1 Bragdon Correspondence Database., 1923-1946
Correspondence about posthumous publications. See Claude Folder 2 Bragdon Correspondence Database., 1966-1978
Notes and progress record of writing The Beautiful Necessity, Folder 3 1892-1912.
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Scope and Contents
Commercially bound manuscript notebook containing: notes from 1891-93 which would be incorporated into Claude Bragdon's writing; January 1, 1900: proclamation to begin writing The Beautiful Necessity; detailed account of number of words written per day on particular subjects.
"Publishing Ventures,", 1909-1920. Folder 4 Scope and Contents
Commercially bound manuscript volume of records of Manas Press. Includes prices, work schedules, names of recipients, etc.
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 1:6-7.
Record of essays, submitted and rejected/published, 1929-1931. Folder 5
Distribution record for Sensitive Horizons, 1946. Folder 6 Physical Description: Commercially bound manuscript volume.
Manuscripts for catalogue blurbs and jacket copy for Claude Folder 7 Bragdon's books.
More Lives Than One, quotes from Alfred Steiglitz, Dane Rudhyar, etc. Physical Description: 4 pages.
Projective Ornament blurb. Physical Description: 1 page.
The Figure in the Carpet, etc. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Excerpts from press notices of An Introduction to Yoga. Physical Description: 1 page.
Catalogue blurb for Yoga For You. Physical Description: 1 page.
Blurb for Art and the Machine Age. Physical Description: 1 page.
Excerpt from review of The Secret Springs. Physical Description: 1 page.
Assorted blurbs. Physical Description: 3 pages.
Blurb for fourth edition of The Beautiful Necessity.
Annual totals of books sold, 1918-1940. (4 pp. manuscript) - Page 43- bragdon_family_papers
Folder 8
Lists of review and author's copies, recipients for Merely Players, Folder 9 The Eternal Poles, Arch Lectures, Yoga For You. Physical Description: 7 pages.
Printed ephemera relating to publications, etc. Folder 10
Brothers of the Book prospectus, The Golden Person in the Heart, (2 versions)., 1898
Manas Press prospectus, Projective Ornament,, 1915.
Newsprint clippings, advertisements for: The New Image, The Beautiful Necessity, More Lives Than One, Confessions of Two Brothers, Delphic Woman, Verse, Manas Press books. (10 items)
A.A. Knopf and Co. prospectus, The New Image.
A.A. Knopf and Co. mailing re: The New Image,, October 1928.
A.A. Knopf and Co. prospectus, More Lives Than One. 3 copies.
A.A. Knopf and Co. prospectus, The Eternal Poles, 4 copies., 1931.
A.A. Knopf and Co., prospectus, The Frozen Fountain, 2 copies., 1932.
Borzoi broadside for with blurb for More Lives Than One., June 1938
Blurb for Delphic Woman.
Manas Press prospectus, Oracle.
Dust jacket, Oracle. 2 complete, 2 partial.
List of Manas Press publications; Manas Press mailing label.
Borzoi prospectus, Tertium Organum, 2nd edition. 2 copies.
A.A. Knopf and Co. prospectus, Yoga For You. 3 copies.
Dust jacket (partial), Yoga For You.
A.A. Knopf and Co. prospectus, Open The Door! 3 copies.
Catalogue of Mathematical Abstractions paintings, Ferargil Galleries, New York, December 15-28, 1941.
Copyright cards and documentation, 1909-1946. Folder 11
Publisher's contracts, 1916-1942. Folder 12
A.A. Knopf and Co., Four-Dimensional Vistas, January 3, 1916.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Architecture and Democracy, May 20, 1918.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Tertium Organum,, February 1, 1922. - Page 44- bragdon_family_papers
A.A. Knopf and Co., A Primer of Higher Space, June 1, 1923.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Manas Press copies of Projective Ornament, Oracle, Episodes From an Unwritten History, etc., July 11, 1923.
American Theosophical Society, copyright Episodes From an Unwritten History, October 1, 1923.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Old Lamps For New, September 18, 1924.
A.A. Knopf and Co., The Eternal Poles, August 8, 1930.
A.A. Knopf and Co., letter re: The Frozen Fountain, October 8, 1931.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Introduction To Yoga, December 16, 1932.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Delphic Woman, March 23, 1936.
A.A. Knopf and Co., More Lives Than One, February 16, 1938.
A.A. Knopf and Co., More Lives Than One, May 26, 1939.
Creative Age Press, The Arch Lectures, October 6, 1941.
A.A. Knopf and Co., Yoga For You, September 29, 1942.
Receipts. Folder 13
A.A. Knopf and Co., Delphic Woman, June 24, 1942.
Eagle Photo Engraving Co. line cut, June 28, 1943.
Royalty statements, A.A. Knopf and Co., 1940-1942. Folder 14
Royalty statements, A.A. Knopf and Co., 1942-1945. Folder 15
Royalty statements, Creative Age Press, The Arch Lectures, Folder 16 1942-1945.
Design: Original drawings and watercolors, exercises in projective Box 42 ornament and dynamic symmetry. (See A.B81, Box 31 for juvenilia and A.B81, Oversize Boxes 1-10 for more original artwork.)
Sketchbook, July 18-August 4, 1883. Folder 1 Physical Description: 20 leaves in commercially bound book.
Pickwick sketchbook, 1886. Folder 2 Physical Description: 16 leaves in commercially bound book.
Sketchbook, 1886. Folder 3 Physical Description: 10 leaves in commercially bound book.
Summer sketchbook, Port Ontario, Selkirk, Chestnut Hill, Oswego Folder 4 Co, N.Y., 1887. Physical Description: 11 leaves in commercially bound book.
Sacketts Harbor sketchbook, August 1888. Folder 5
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Physical Description: 6 leaves in commercially bound book.
Drawings for University of Rochester yearbook, 1889. Folder 6 Physical Description: 6 leaves.
Pages from sketchbook, circa 1890. Folder 7 Physical Description: 5 leaves.
"Studies in Architectural Design, Composition, Proportion & Folder 7A Rendering,", 1894. Physical Description: 11 leaves.
Sketchbook, Europe: London, Paris, Italy, 1895. Folder 8 Physical Description: 32 leaves in commercially bound book.
Miscellaneous sketches, undated. Folder 9 Physical Description: 12 leaves.
Binding designs for Stone and Kimball, 1895. Folder 10 Physical Description: 2 leaves.
Quadrato e Cubo; Illustrations, 1912. Folder 11 Physical Description: 1 leaf.
Alternate device; Primer of Higher Space, title page and colophon, Folder 12 1917. Physical Description: 1 leaf.
Design for a book cover in projective ornament, undated. Folder 13 Physical Description: 1 mounted leaf.
Design for New York Community Chorus Poster, undated. Folder 14 Physical Description: 1 leaf.
Song and Light drawings for House Beautiful, June 1917. Folder 15 Physical Description: 8 leaves.
Notes and sketches for costume designs; record of expenses, Folder 16 1923-1933. Physical Description: Notebook.
Costume designs for The Eternal Thief, See Claude Bragdon Folder 17 Theatre Drawings Database., 1926. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Costume designs for The Eternal Thief, See Claude Bragdon Folder 18 Theatre Drawings Database., 1926. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Device for "The Arch,", 1940. Folder 19 Physical Description: 1 leaf.
Projective ornament design by Frederick Trautmann, undated. - Page 46- bragdon_family_papers
Physical Description: 1 mounted leaf, 1 blueprint. Folder 20 Scope and Contents
Variant on frontispiece for Projective Ornament, 1915.
Ornament derived from hyper solids, undated. Folder 21 Physical Description: 3 leaves.
Designs derived from magic squares, undated. Folder 22 Physical Description: 6 leaves. 3 leaves.
Lines traced through magic squares, undated. Folder 23 Physical Description: 7 leaves.
Magic squares, undated. Not all in Claude Bragdon's own hand. Folder 24
Durer's Melancholia Square. Physical Description: 1 leaf.
1 tearsheet for unknown periodical.
Magic squares by Knut A. Westhohn, Seattle, April 1927.
Magic squares drawing, pencil by ? (not Claude Bragdon).
Magic squares by Royal V. Heath. Physical Description: 5 typescript and ink leaves.
Magic square by ? Physical Description: 1 blueprint.
Analysis of Egyptian design (dynamic symmetry), undated, Folder 25 possibly drawn by Viola de Gruchy. Physical Description: 2 leaves.
Set of lessons in dynamic symmetry, possibly drawn by Viola de Folder 26 Gruchy, 1923, 1936, Physical Description: 16 leaves.
Exercises in dynamic symmetry, Drawn by Claude Bragdon for Folder 27 Dorothy Brett, 1936. Physical Description: 2 leaves.
Magic squares designed by Royal V. Heath, c. Mathemagical Folder 28 Pastimes, Series 7-9, 11, 13-21, 1935. Physical Description: 21 miscellaneous.
Magic Cube, constructed by Philip Henry Wynne, circa 1911-12. Folder 29 Physical Description: 1 leaf.
Engineering studies; calculations of curves, undated. Not in Folder 30 Claude Bragdon's own hand.
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Physical Description: 8 leaves.
Design: Printed, photographs, or mechanically reproduced Box 43 examples.
Architectural renderings. Folder 1 Physical Description: 8 photomechanical reproductions
Loggia for George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y., 1916.
Hunter Street Bridge, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, 1918.
Valley Inn Bridge, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1919.
Todmorden and Leaside Bridge, York Township, Canada, 2 copies, 1921. Physical Description: Stamped: "Photography by John Wallace Gillies."
Canandaigua N.Y. Historical Society and Wood Library, 1913.
Unidentified end and side elevations, circa 1897.
Stage sets for Hamlet. Folder 2 Scope and Contents
See also Claude Bragdon Theatre Drawings Database.
Photomechanical reproduction of "The Queen's Closet" from Act II, scene iii, 1925.
Stage sets for Merchant of Venice.Claude Bragdon Theatre Folder 3 Drawings Database.
Two 4x5 inch black and white negatives of drawings for The Courtroom and Portia's House.
Stage sets for Light of Asia.Claude Bragdon Theatre Drawings Folder 4 Database.
One 4x5 inch black and white negative "Prologue."
Projective ornament. 1 blueprint. Folder 5
Projective ornament designs; undated. Folder 6 Physical Description: 5 4x5 inch black and white glass plate negatives, extremely fragile.
Glass plate negatives in original box, titled in Bragdon's hand: Folder 7 "Proj. Ornament Lantern Slide Positives."
5x7 inch glass plate, extremely fragile. "Art in Buttons" cover, Original art in A.B81 oversize Box 1, printed covers in A.B81 43:14., 1923.
5x7 inch glass plate, extremely fragile. A Primer of Higher Space title page and text decoration.
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Photographic reproductions of Bragdon's "Mathematical Folder 8 Abstractions" watercolor paintings. Scope and Contents
These 15 paintings were exhibited at Ferargil Galleries, 63 East 57th St., N.Y., N.Y. December 15-28, 1941. Some of these black and white photographic reproductions have been numbered and signed by Bragdon. The catalog for the exhibition is in A.B81 43:21 and cataloged in the book collection. Rochester's Memorial Art Gallery owns three of these paintings: numbers 5, 6, and 14. Painting no. 4 is in a private collection in Rochester. The rest of the original works are presumed lost.
Tear sheets, American Architect and Building News, October 3, Folder 9 1891; January 21, 1893; March 24, 1894.
Minor Italian Palaces, no. 1, Cutler Manufacturing Company, Folder 10 Rochester, N.Y., Original cover art in A.B81 oversize Box 1, 1896. Physical Description: Two complete portfolios of 6 prints, one partial set.
Mail Chuting: an occasional brochure, part 1. Five sketches by Folder 11 Harvey Ellis. Cutler Manufacturing Company, 1897.
Book jackets designed for A.A. Knopf. Folder 12
One of Those Ways by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, 1929.
Robbers and Soldiers by Albert Ehrenstein, 1929.
Portrait in a Mirror by Charles Morgan, 1929.
The Dain Curse by Dashiell Hammett, 1929.
Dust jacket design for Sensitive Horizons by Alice Sprague, Folder 13 published by the Manas Press, 1946. Physical Description: Photomechanical and blueprint.
Miscellaneous printed ephemera designed by Claude Bragdon. Folder 14
Rochester Chamber of Commerce dinner menu, February 5, 1894.
Cutler Manufacturing Company calendar, November 1894.
Rochester Post Express Anniversary mailer. Inscription, in Katherine Bragdon's hand, dated, April 22, 1895.
Stein-Bloch Smart Clothes sign, undated.
Rochester Post Express For Sale Here sign. Two copies, one dated in Katherine Bragdon's hand, December 3, 1895.
Rochester Historical Society mailing for lecture by Bragdon "Colonial Architecture in the Genesee Valley," June 7, 1915. Addressed to George P. Humphrey.
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Manas Press envelope, undated.
New York Community Chorus Sing advertising card, circa 1915.
Art in Buttons covers, Two copies of purple and green design. Original artwork in A.B81 oversize Box 1, 1924.
Art in Buttons covers, Green and orange design. Original artwork in A.B81 oversize Box 1, 1925.
Advertisements and programs, designed by Claude Bragdon, Folder 15 1889-1897.
Lyceum Theatre Class Day, June 18, 1889.
"A Catalogue of Posters on Exhibition at the Mechanics Institute, [Rochester, N.Y.] December 30, 1895-January 4, 1896. 2 copies.
Bookplates and labels; mounted on cards. Folder 16
Bookplates and labels. Folder 17
Programs and ephemera for Walter Hampden productions, Folder 18 1919-1929.
Hamlet, Shubert-Princess Theatre, Chicago, April 21, 1919.
Macbeth, Lyceum Theatre, November 17, 1921.
Announcement for Othello, Shubert Theatre, New York, January 1925.
Othello, Shubert Theatre, New York, Tearsheets of program, January 10, 1925.
Hamlet, Hampden's Theatre, New York, Program designed by Bragdon, 2 copies, October 1925.
The Immortal Thief, Hampden's Theatre, New York, Program designed by Bragdon, October 1926.
Caponsacchi, Hampden's Theatre, New York, Program designed by Bragdon, October 26, 1926.
An Enemy of the People, Academy of Music, Philadelphia, October 1, 1927.
An Enemy of the People, Hampden's Theatre, New York, Program designed by Bragdon, October 3, 1927.
The Light of Asia, Hampden's Theatre, New York, c. Program designed by Bragdon, 1928.
Cyrano de Bergerac, Hampden's Theatre, New York, Program designed by Bragdon. 3 copies, December 25, 1928.
Bonds of Interest, Hampden's Theatre, New York, c. Program designed by Bragdon, 1929.
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Richelieu, Hampden's Theatre, New York, Program designed by Bragdon., December 25, 1929.
Pamphlet re: Caponsacchi and Hamlet, 1933. Photographic illustrations show Bragdon's costume and set designs.
Cyrano de Bergerac, Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 23-26, 1936.
Invitation for Songs Out of Doors party at 3 Castle Park, Folder 19 Rochester, New York, 3 copies, May 24, 1915.
Programs and announcements for programs featuring Claude Folder 20 Bragdon; designed by Claude Bragdon. See also Box 47, folder 24.
Invitation to meet Prince Street Players, Walter Hampden and Hamlet Company, 3 Castle Park, Rochester, N.Y., January 18, 1916?
Envelope with device of "The Prometheans,", 1921.
"Theatre, Arts & Letters" Luncheon, Plaza Hotel, January 9, 1931.
Invitation to Bragdon's exhibition of stage designs at the Museum of the City of New York, 2 copies, October 1933.
Catalogue of Bragdon's "Mathematical Abstractions" painting exhibition, Ferargil Galleries, New York, 2 copies, December 15-28, 1941.
American Foundation for Metaphysical Arts and Sciences, Inc. Fall 1943 lectures, including Bragdon's "Yoga For You,", November 13, 1943.
New York Forum Spring 1944 lectures at Hotel McAlpin, including Bragdon's "The Gift of Asia,", April 20, 1944.
New York Forum Winter-Spring 1945 lectures at Hotel McAlpin, including Bragdon's "Evil & Eve,", March 22, 1945.
New York Forum Association's Forum Hall Fall 1945 lectures, including Bragdon's "Illusion and Reality," Device on front cover designed by Bragdon, October 18, 1945.
Postcard and flyer for Bragdon's "Art & Geometry" lecture, Biosophical Institute, August 16, 1946.
Event at Yoga Research Institute. Incomplete, with Bragdon's annotations), undated.
Illustrations, proofs, clipped copies. Folder 21
Chapter headings and initials for Tertium Organum; folio printed by The Du Bois Press, Rochester, N.Y.
Photocopy of T-Square Club Catalogue of the Architectural Exhibition 1899-1900, page 139 showing Bragdon's Stein cottage design.
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Advertisement for R. Guastavino Co. featuring New York Central Station from The Brickbuilder,, July 1914.
Proof, title page, History of the Theological Seminary in Virginia, The Du Bois Press, 1923.
Aerial Perspective of New York Central Station, Rochester, N.Y.; tear sheet from Encyclopedia Britannica, c., 1928-29.
Proof, title page The Frozen Fountain,, 1932.
1/4" scale drawings of settings for The Eternal Thief, source unknown.
Design for scene-drop curtain, Achilles Had a Heel, c. source unknown., 1935,
black and white reproductions of Mathematical Abstraction painting (), sources unknown. 3 items., 1941
Tear sheet from article on bridges, possibly Architectural Record 53:2-10, January, 1923.
Tear sheet from article on bridges, source unknown.
Illustration, "The Water Gate," source unknown.
Advertising buttons for Song and Light programs, 1915-1917. Folder 22
Community chorus, Highland Park, Rochester, N.Y., September 30, 1915.
NY Community Chorus Song and Light, Central Park, New York, September 13, 1916.
Song and Light Festival, U.S. Mobilization Camp, Syracuse, N.Y., August 9, 1917.
Song and Light City Ceremonial, Buffalo, N.Y., August 31, 1917.
Design work in color, light and music. Box 44
Song and Light programs, 1915-1918. Folder 1
Song and Venetian Light Night, Highland Park, Rochester, N.Y., September 30, 1915.
NY Community Chorus Song and Light, Central Park, New York, 4 copies., September 13, 1916.
Song and Light Festival, U.S. Mobilization Camp, Syracuse, N.Y., 3 copies., August 9, 1917.
Song and Light City Ceremonial, Buffalo, N.Y., 2 copies., August 31, 1917.
Invitation to Sing in NY Community Chorus' Song and Light, Central Park, New York, 3 copies., September 13-14, 1917.
Song and Light, City of New York Fall Festival, 3 copies., September 13-14, 1917. - Page 52- bragdon_family_papers
Song and Light Festival, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, OH, 6 copies, one with mss. notations by Bragdon., December 24, 1917.
Song and Light, Third Annual Festival, Central Park, New York, 4 copies., September 17 and 18, 1918.
Song and Light Festival; Claude Bragdon's statements on history Folder 2 and development.
Undated carbon typescript, signed. Physical Description: 7 pages.
Claude Bragdon to Francis Mitchell, The Post Express,, August 13, 1917. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Specifications for Song and Light Festival Folder 2A
Description and Outline Specification of the Physical Setting of New York Song and Light; Central Park, New York, September 13, 1916. Physical Description: 5 pages.
Inventory of Screens and Lanterns Used at the New York Song and Light" Physical Description: 4 pages.
Periodical clippings about Song and Light Folder 3
Clippings re: Song and Venetian Light Night, Highland Park, Rochester, N.Y., 4 clippings., September 30, 1915.
"Harry Barnhart, The Billy Sunday of Music", tearsheets, publication unknown, June 1917.
Clipping re: National Conference on Community Music, New York Times,, June 2, 1917.
Clipping re: Song and Light City Ceremonial, Buffalo, N.Y., August 31, 1917.
"Uncle Sam's Singing Army" tearsheets, Everybody's Magazine,, April 1918.
Clipping re: Central Park Song and Light, undated.
Color Music Notebook, "studies in harmony." Folder 4 Physical Description: 12 pages.
Notes on correlation of color and music. Folder 5 Physical Description: 2 leaves.
Published music scores with Bragdon's manuscript notations for Folder 6 color music.
"The Skater's Waltz," by Émile Waldteufel. 2 copies.
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"Pizzicati," from Sylvia, by Léo Delibes.
"Valse Lente," from Sylvia, by Léo Delibes.
"Sonata quasi una Fantasia," by Ludwig van Beethoven.
"Valse Triste," by Jean Sibelius. Physical Description: 2 different published scores, only one with Bragdon's annotations.
Scores; chords, scales and octaves. Folder 7 Physical Description: Watercolor, pencil applied to black card, 3 cards.
Complementary color charts. Folder 8 Physical Description: Watercolor, pencil applied to black card, 3 cards.
Masks for creating color sequences. 9 items. Folder 9
Chromatic chart. Folder 10 Physical Description: Oils on board, framed.
Chart, chromatic scale. December 24, 1916 Folder 11 Physical Description: Watercolor and ink on paper.
Album of color music scores, November 20, 1934. Folder 12 Physical Description: Watercolor and white pencil on black paper in commercially produced post binding.
"The Skater's Waltz," by Émile Waldteufel.
"Pizzicato," from Sylvia, by Léo Delibes.
Color music score, Beethoven's Dream. Folder 13 Physical Description: 5 black ink and colored pencil mounted on black cards.
Color music score, America. Folder 14 Physical Description: 8 watercolor and white ink mounted on black card.
Color music score, Moonlight III. Folder 15 Physical Description: 7 watercolor and white ink mounted on black card.
A Souvenier [sic] of the Color Organ by Bainbridge Bishop; Folder 16 published by the De Vinne Press, 1893. Physical Description: 15 pages. Physical Description: title: A Souvenir of the Color Organ,
Clippings regarding Van Deering Perrine. Folder 17
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"Art's Latest Venture to Paint Protean Designs with Mobile Colors" by Edward H. Smith; The World Magazine, (2 copies), May 26, 1918. Physical Description: Tearsheet.
"News of the Art World" by Frederick W. Eddy; publication unknown. Physical Description: Tearsheet.
"The Mystery of Light" by Van Deering Perrine, publication unknown. Physical Description: Tearsheet.
Thomas Wilfred and Clavilux, programs, 1922. Folder 18
Program for color organ performance of Prometheus by the Folder 19 Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, December 14, 1967.
Color Music: Scores. (Watercolor, pencil applied to black cards.) Box 45
Moonlight I. 37 cards.
Moonlight II. 62 cards.
Photographs. Architectural Projects; Song and Light Festivals; Box 46 Theatrical Productions.
Architectural Projects. Scope and Contents
See also Oversize boxes 2 and 2a.
Title/Description Instances Noyes House, Dansville, N.Y. Folder 1 Physical Description: 8 silver gelatin photographs.
First Universalist Church. Rochester, N.Y. Folder 2 Physical Description: 4 silver gelatin photographs.
Evangelical Christian (Italian) Church. Rochester, N.Y. Folder 3 Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin photograph + 1 copy print.
Miscellaneous projects. Folder 4 Physical Description: 5 silver gelatin photographs.
Buell House, 22 Berkeley Street, Rochester, N.Y. (D.87 #55.)
3 Castle Park (Bragdon's home, Cro's Nest), Rochester, N.Y. (D.87 #90, #141.)
Otis Arch, Rochester, N.Y. (D.87 #28.) Physical Description: 2 silver gelatin photographs.
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Bandstand designed by Claude Bragdon for Harry Barnhart, 1937.
Beckley House, 75 Berkeley Street, Rochester, N.Y. (D.87 #125.)
Bridges. Folder 5
Hunter Street Bridge, Peterboro, Ontario, Canada (D.87 #101.) Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin postcard, 1 photomechanical postcard.
New York Central Passenger Station, Rochester, N.Y. Folder 6
Structural framework for waiting room, from the tracks. Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin photograph.
Waiting Room framework under construction. Physical Description: 1 cyanotype.
Waiting Room with Guastavino vaulted ceiling complete. Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin photograph.
Interior details. Physical Description: 2 5x7 inch black and white negatives)
Exterior. Physical Description: 1 5x7 inch black and white negative.
New York Central Passenger Station, Rochester, N.Y. Folder 7 Physical Description: 25 silver gelatin photographs.
New York Central Passenger Station, Rochester, N.Y. Album Folder 8 assembled by Claude Bragdon. Physical Description: 26 photographs mounted on black card; 10 reproductions of architectural drawings mounted on black card.
Chamber of Commerce Building, Rochester, New York. Folder 9 Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin photograph.
Chicago Tribune Tower; Competition entry, 1921. Folder 10 Physical Description: 1 photomechanical reproduction of rendering.
Academy of Music, Brooklyn, N.Y. Doors designed by Claude Folder 11 Bragdon c., 1929. Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin photograph, 1940.
Song and Light Festivals Title/Description Instances Song and Light; Highland Park, Rochester, N.Y. or 1916., 1915 Folder 12
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Physical Description: 2 autochromes; 3 color 35 mm slides; 3 color prints of slides.
Song and Light; Central Park, New York, N.Y. or 1917., 1915 Folder 13 Physical Description: 9 silver gelatin photographs.
Song and Light; Syracuse, N.Y., 1917. Folder 14 Physical Description: 5 silver gelatin photographs.
Song and Light; Camp Sheridan, OH, December 1918. Folder 15 Physical Description: 4 silver gelatin photographs.
Song and Light; Seneca Park, Rochester, N.Y., August 1917. Folder 16 Physical Description: 1 silver gelatin photograph.
Theatrical Productions. Scope and Contents
See also Claude Bragdon Theatre Drawings Database.
Title/Description Instances Walter Hampden's Hamlet. Folder 17 Physical Description: 6 silver gelatine photographs.
Walter Hampden's Cyrano. Folder 18 Physical Description: 5 silver gelatine photographs.
Walter Hampden's Richelieu. Folder 19 Physical Description: 1 silver gelatine photograph.
Walter Hampden portrait. Folder 20 Physical Description: 1 silver gelatine photograph.
Claude F. Bragdon exhibit, University of Rochester Library, Folder 21 1972. Physical Description: 23 black and white negatives; includes 2 copies of 9 images.
Financial and Miscellaneous Papers. Box 47
Financial information on Bragdon & Hillman business card. Folder 1 Account book, 1893-1902, January 1920-June 1941.
Account book, July 1941-February 1948. Folder 2 Scope and Contents
1947-1948 accounts entered by executor, Henry Bragdon.
Receipts, Mathematical Abstractions exhibition at Ferargil Folder 3 Galleries, New York, N.Y., 1941.
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re: deposit for exhibition expense.
Financial statement, Claude Bragdon estate, January 1-December Folder 4 31, 1948.
Claude Bragdon's will, August 1, 1943. Folder 5 Physical Description: 3 carbon copies.
Book lists; written or owned by Claude Bragdon. Folder 6 Physical Description: 4 typewritten pages,
Miscellaneous quotations. Folder 7
Extracts from Some Sayings from the Upanishads by Dr. L.D. Barnett.
Extracts from How You Live When You Die by Shaw Desmond.
Extract from a 1929 letter by Katherine Mansfield.
Extract on War, by Hilarion [?].
Extract from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James.
Extracts from the Letters of Olive Schreiner.
Robert Louis Stevenson about Writing.
Extract from The Journal of My Other Self by Rainer Maria Rilke.
Quotation from My Country and My People by Lin Yutang. Physical Description: 2 pages.
From New York Herald-Tribune, March 12, 1935, "Krishnamurti Here, Warning People to Think." Physical Description: 3 pages.
Extract re: Koho, source unknown. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Essay re: Yoshio Arai, source unknown. Physical Description: 5 pages.
Horoscopes, 1909-1943. Folder 8
Delineation of horoscope for Claude Bragdon by Evangeline Adams, November 22, 1909.
Horoscope for Claude Bragdon by Gertrude de Bielski, November 1911. Physical Description: Manuscript and typewritten transcription.
Horoscope for Claude Bragdon by L. Edward Johndro, c., 1912.
Horoscope for Claude Bragdon by Walter H. Sampson, c., 1914.
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Letter re: horoscope, source unknown., 1916
Horoscope for Claude Bragdon by Walter H. Sampson, c., 1916.
2 leaves mss. notations, source unknown c., 1943?
Handwriting analysis for Claude Bragdon by "Grapho", August Folder 9 18, 1898.
Report of clairvoyant investigation by Geoffrey Hodson, October Folder 10 28, 1932. Physical Description: 3 pages.
Occult communications from Sano Tarot via Nancy Fullwood, Folder 11 1920-1939.
Occult communications via Olga Rosmanith, undated. Folder 12
Olga Rosmanith; extracts from letters, n.d. Folder 13
Occult communications, readings, etc. various sources, undated. Folder 14
Miscellaneous occult notes by Claude Bragdon, undated. Folder 15
George Henry Felt, "The Kaballah of the Egyptians." Folder 16 Physical Description: Carbon typescript. Scope and Contents
Given to Claude Bragdon by Viola de Gruchy in 1936.
Notes on nutrition, typescript and printed, sources and dates Folder 17 unknown.
Players Club ephemera re: "Pipe Night", 1944. Folder 18 Physical Description: 3 items.
Petition to the New York World's Fair Committee; Harry Folder 19 Barnhart, c., 1937. Physical Description: 7 pages.
"My Recollection of the First Address Given by Krishnamurti ... Folder 20 April 10, 1928" by Claude Bragdon. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Material relating to Walter Hampden. Folder 21
Program for Madame Sans-Gene, The Lyceum Players under the direction of Kathryn Kidder and Walter Hampden, Rochester, NY, May 1, 1911.
Hampden re: Claude Bragdon's design c., 1933. Physical Description: 1 page.
Re: Henry V, c., 1928 Physical Description: 1 page.
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"An Appreciation of Walter Hampden" by Louis K. Anspacher, reprinted from Philadelphia Forum, undated.
Program for The Patriots, The Playwrights' Company, Rochester, N.Y., November 5-6, 1943.
Calling cards. Folder 22
"Gordon, Bragdon, & Orchard, Architects, 46 Trust Building".
"Mr. Claude Fayette Bragdon, Architect, 104-105 Cutler Building".
"Mrs. Claude Fayette Bragdon, 344 Mt. Hope Avenue". [Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon]
"Mr. Claude Fayette Bragdon".
O.W. Dryer & Harwood B. Dryer card announcing their new address and control of Bragdon's practice, 1923-4.
Miscellaneous ephemera; non-Bragdon events. Folder 23
"Open Letter to Annie Besant" by W. Kingsland, December 3, 1909.
"The Necessity for Reincarnation," American Section of Theosophical Society, [undated]
"Two Disciples," souvenir of 24th annual convention of American Section of Theosophical Society, Chicago, Ill., September 11, 1910.
Prospectus for Theosophy by Rudolph Steiner published by Rand McNally & Co., 1910.
Theosophy in Scotland, Vol. II, No. 2, June 1911.
The Vahan, Vol. XX, No. 11, Theosophical Society in England and Wales, June 1, 1911.
Supplement to The Theosophist, Adyar, October 1911.
Flyer for lectures by L.W. Rogers at First Unitarian Church, Rochester, N.Y., November 17-29, 1911.
Catalogue of books on Theosophy, Theosophical Book Company, Ridgewood, N.J., 1911.
Vedanta Society booklet, 62 West 71 Street, New York, N.Y., undated.
The New Age, Vol. 25, No. 19, September 4, 1919.
Program, the Provincetown Players, 1921-1922 season.
Prospectus, The Talks and Writings of Krishnamurti, Star Publishing Trust.
Announcement for "Mind Digest".
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Announcement of lectures by C. Jinarajadasa for Theosophical Society, undated.
Exhibition of Portraits in Wax by Ethel Frances Mundy, Knoedler & Co, New York, N.Y., May 10-22, 1926.
Alice Caldwell, Pianist, ca., 1930. Biographical / Historical
Caldwell was a correspondent of Bragdon's.
Prospectus, Practical Applications of Dynamic Symmetry, by Jay Hambidge, Yale University Press, 1932.
Catalogue for N. Gabo exhibition at Julien Levy Gallery, New York, N.Y., April 5-May 1, 1937?
Flyer, Malvina Hoffman's "Tribute to the Dance," Cosmopolitan Club, New York, N.Y., December 10, 1937.
Advertising flyer for Ed Wheelan's Old Timer, c., August 1939.
Program, The Jitney Players "One Night Stand," Barbizon-Plaza Theatre, November 26, 1939.
Invitation to Salon from Mabel Dodge Luhan, January 1940.
Lecture announcement, "Last Stand for Freedom" by Mary Gray, Steinway Building, New York, November 1, 1940.
Invitation to Maha Bodhi Society's Buddah's Birthday celebration, New York, May 11, 1941.
Flyer from Theatre exhibition at Guild Theatre, New York, November 1941.
Program, Priorities of 1942, Forty-Sixth Street Theatre, New York, March 1942.
Guest list, dinner in tribute to Anti-Fascist Fighters, Paul Robeson Guest of Honor; Hotel Biltmore, New York, March 23, 1942.
Prospectus for Twice A Year, double number 8-9, 1942.
Catalogue for Jessica Sherman exhibition at Argent Galleries, New York, N.Y., March 1-13, 1943.
Brochure for [Harry] Barnhart Tonal Breathing, c., October 1943.
Program for Martha Graham & Dance Co., National Theatre, New York, N.Y., May 1945.
Program for King Coit Children's Theatre "The Garden Wall,", May 4, 1945.
"Coming to Terms With the New Age," NY Forum Association, with Bragdon device., September 1945,
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Advertisement for Josephine Frantz Parks, Concert Dancer- Teacher, undated.
Catalogue for "Paintings of India" by Svetoslav Roerich at Argent Galleries, New York, April 28-May 17, undated.
Design for an Auto-solar System by Harvey L. Page, undated. Physical Description: Blueprint.
Programs and openings featuring Claude Bragdon, 1874-1941. Folder 24 Scope and Contents
See also Box 43, folder 21.
Dansville [New York] Select School Literary Entertainment, July 14, 1874.
Competition for Posters for Marie Antoinette Fete, Mechanics Institute [Rochester, N.Y.], January 20, 1897.
"Masks and Faces of New York" lecture, Memorial Art Gallery [Rochester, N.Y.], January 21, 1914.
"The Artist in the Theatre and Theatrical Production," Repertory Theatre Club of Boston, February 25, 1925.
"The Theatre as a Temple," The Princess Theatre, January 31, 1926.
"The New Image," et al., Metropolitan Theosophical Federation, February 20, 1927.
White Lotus Day celebration, Maha Bodhi Society, May 16, 1927.
Catalog of an Exhibition of Drawings... for...Hampden's..., Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November 5-27, 1927.
"The Technique of Theatrical Production," Laboratory Theatre; (2 copies), December 5, 1928.
"The Unknown Eros," Friends of Roerich Museum, February 19, 1930.
"Mathematics' Artful Aid," Astrological Research Fdn., Roerich Museum, May 9, 1930.
"Think in New Categories," School of Ageless Wisdom, October 23, 1931.
"Hyperspace" and "The Sleeping Beauty;" Mecca Temple, February 1932.
"Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?" The Psychic Forum, February 1, 1940.
"Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid?" The Arch, November 20, 1940.
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"Four Dimensional Vistas;" The Psychic Forum, December 26, 1940.
"The Lost Language of Symbols," American Foundation for Metaphysical Arts & Sciences, April 8, 1941.
Invitation to preview of Mathematical Abstractions paintings, Ferargil Gallery; (2 copies), December 14, 1941.
Program in honor of CFB on his 79th Birthday, Biosophical Institute; (2 copies), August 1, 1945.
Claude Fayette Bragdon's resume, circa 1937. Folder 25
Lecture titles and venues. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Books by Claude Bragdon. Physical Description: 1 page.
Architectural, Lighting, Theatrical projects. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Exhibits, press statements. Physical Description: 2 pages.
Alice B. Sprague; "Madeleine de Baine--A Doll's Story." Folder 26 Physical Description: 31 pages.
Secondary material about Claude Bragdon and Bragdon family. Box 48
Lecture in honor of Claude Bragdon delivered at Biosophical Folder 1 Institute, May 1938. Physical Description: 9 pages.
Claude Fayette Bragdon; memorials and tributes, 1946. Folder 2
Essays about Claude Bragdon by Erville Costa, 1966-67. Folder 3 Scope and Contents
Includes corrections made by Henry W. Bragdon.
"Claude Fayette Bragdon, a Man Molded by, but Transcending, Urban Influences", January 1966.
"Claude F. Bragdon, Architect, Stage Designer, and Mystic," Rochester History, (3 copies), October 1967.
Critique of above, by Henry W. Bragdon. Physical Description: 3 pages.
"Claude Bragdon: A Profile" by David Siegfried, Spring, 1974. Folder 4
"Claude Bragdon: Architectural Theory and the Rochester Train Folder 5 Station" by Gina Santucci, Columbia University, December 14, 1979.
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"Rochester's Neglected Genius: Claude Fayette Bragdon" by Folder 6 Carlos de Zafra, Jr., circa 1978.
Essays about Claude Bragdon by Linda Dalrymple Henderson. Folder 7 Scope and Contents
See also cataloged materials by Henderson.
"Merging of Time and Space...", Soviet Union 5, Pt. 2, 1978.
"Italian Futurism and the Fourth Dimension," Art Journal, Winter, 1981.
"Mabel Dodge, Gertrude Stein, and Max Weber: A Four- Dimensional Trio," Arts Magazine,, September 1982.
"Mysticism, Romanticism, and the Fourth Dimension," from The Spiritual in Art, LA County Museum of Art, 1986.
Essays about Claude Bragdon by Eugenia V. Ellis. Folder 7A Scope and Contents
See also cataloged materials by Eugenia V. Ellis.
"Lo Shu, Window to the World of the Wondrous."
Dissertation Proposal, "Squaring the Circle."
Preliminary Exam questions, June, 2002.
Essays about Claude Bragdon by Sian Loftus. Folder 7B
"Claude Bragdon in Context," Edinburgh Architecture Research 26, 2005. Scope and Contents
See also catalogued materials by Eugenia V. Ellis, Christina Malathouni, Jonathan Massey, et al.
Lists of Claude Bragdon miscellaneous material at other Folder 8 institutions.
Theatre work at New York Public Library and at Museum of the City of New York.
Correspondence Claude Bragdon-Robert Horton, CFB- miscellaneous, 1934-1946, Princeton University.
New York Central Railroad Station materials; Avery Library, Columbia University.
Notes on Claude Bragdon; collected by Henry Bragdon in Folder 9 preparation for [aborted] book project.
Programs and exhibits about Claude Bragdon, post 1946. Folder 10
Claude Bragdon Day; Rochester, N.Y., May 24, 1973. Folder 11
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Bragdon genealogy; compiled by Henry W. Bragdon. Folder 12 Scope and Contents
See also Box 48, folders 13-14; Box 74, folders 8-9; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:5; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Boxes 11:1,9,12,17.
Henry W. Bragdon; notes on Bragdon and Shipherd families. Folder 13 Scope and Contents
See also Box 48, folder 12; Box 74, folders 8-9; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:5; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Boxes 11:1,9,12,17.
"A Pulaski Heritage Contrasted to a Boston Heritage," by Peter W. Folder 14 Bragdon, April 14, 1958.
Press release on Harwood Dryer gift of Claude Bragdon Folder 15 architectural drawings to the University of Rochester, 1978.
Newspaper clippings about Claude Bragdon, 1897-present. Box 49
Articles about Claude Bragdon, 1897-1945. Folder 1
Articles about Claude Bragdon. Folder 2
Reviews of Claude Bragdon books. Folder 3
Henry Clune on Claude Bragdon. Folder 4
Obituaries of Claude Bragdon. Folder 5
Clippings about Claude Bragdon, post 1950. Folder 6
Lectures by Claude Bragdon. Folder 7
Contemporary press accounts of the Livingston County Folder 8 Courthouse, designed by Claude Bragdon, Geneseo, N.Y., 1899.
Contemporary press accounts of various buildings and projects Folder 9 designed by Claude Bragdon, 1910-1925.
Later newspaper accounts about Bragdon Buildings. Folder 10
Contemporary newspaper accounts of the New York Central Folder 11 Passenger Station, designed by Claude Bragdon.
Song and Light, lighting effects. Folder 12
Theater and Hampden. Folder 13
Scrapbooks created by Claude Bragdon.
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Boxes 51-56: Personal Scrapbooks, 1889-1921. Title/Description Instances 1889-1894. Box 51A
1894-1900. Box 51B
1900-1908. Box 51C
1908-1913. Box 52A
1913-1919. Box 52B
1919-1924. Box 53A
1925-1928. Box 53B
1928-1930. Box 53C
1930-1937. Box 54A
1935-1944. Box 54B
1944-1946. Box 55
Manas Press, 1911-1921. Box 56
1911-1917. Box 56A
1915-1921. Box 56B
Boxes 57-66: Scrapbooks, General design, 1888-1906. Title/Description Instances Architecture, art and decoration to 1888 (No. 1). Box 57A
Architecture, art and decoration, January-December, (No. 2)., Box 57B 1888
Poster designs and architecture, undated. (No. 3). Box 58A
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 4), December 1888- Box 58B December 1889
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 5), July 1890-February 1891 Box 59A
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 6), February 1891-March Box 59B 1892
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 7), March 1892-November Box 59C 1893
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 8), January 1894-March Box 60A 1894
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 9), March 1894-November Box 60B 1894
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Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 10), January 1895-March Box 60C 1896
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 11), November 1894- Box 60D January 1895
Architecture, art and decoration, undated (No. 12). Box 61B
Articles, undated (No. 13). Box 62A
Poster designs and architecture, undated (No. 14). Box 62B
Poster designs and architecture, undated (No. 15). Box 63A
Architecture, (No. 16), 1905 Box 63B
Architecture, (No. 17), 1905 Box 64A
Architecture, undated (No. 18). Box 64B
Poster designs, art, architecture, (No. 19), 1899-1906 Box 65A
Architecture, undated, (No. 20). Box 65B
Architecture, art and decoration, (No. 21), December 1889-July Box 66A 1890
Loose clippings. Box 66B
Index to scrapbooks, compiler unknown (No. 22).
Charlotte (Wilkinson) Bragdon and Wilkinson Family Title/Description Instances Correspondence and memorabilia. Box 67 Scope and Contents
Folders 1-3 contain photocopies of letters Charlotte Wilkinson wrote to her mother from Smith College, where she studied 1891-1897. See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Boxes 2-4.
Existence and Location of Originals: Existence and Location of Originals
The original materials are located in the Smith College Archives, to whom requests for copies and permission to use should be addressed.
Correspondence, Charlotte Wilkinson to Charlotte Wilkinson Folder 1 Sr., July 1891-April 1892.
Correspondence, Charlotte Wilkinson to Charlotte Wilkinson Folder 2 Sr., May 1892-December 1892.
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Correspondence, 1898-1907. Folder 4 Biographical / Historical
Charlotte Wilkinson and Claude Bragdon were married November 3, 1902 in Syracuse.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Louisa Wilkinson, 1900.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, January 2, 1901.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, October 7, 1902.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, October 14, 1902.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, October 28, 1902.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, July 3, 1903.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, July 26, 1903.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, October 15, 1903.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, 1904?
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, January 7, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, February 3, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, February 11, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, March 4, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, March 9, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, March 21, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, October 9, 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, December 1904.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, August 27, 1905.
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Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, August 30, 1905.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, March 14, 1906.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, April 29, 1906.
Katherine Elmina Bragdon to Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon, (draft copy), May 6, 1906
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Katherine Elmina Bragdon, May 8, 1906.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to ?, (photocopy), 1906
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Henry "Harry" Wilkinson, July 17, 1906.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Henry "Harry" Wilkinson, September, 1906.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to May Bragdon, August 31, 1907.
Charlotte Wilkinson to Louisa Wilkinson, undated. (photocopy)
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Henry "Harry" Wilkinson, undated.
Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon to Henry "Harry" Wilkinson, undated.
Invitations to and clippings regarding marriage of Charlotte Folder 5 Wilkinson and Claude Bragdon, November 3, 1902.
Memorials to Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon. Folder 6
Rose Alling's remarks at the Wednesday Morning Club, January 22, 1908. Physical Description: Photocopy of manuscript; 2 carbon typescripts; photocopy of typescript with note by Henry Wilkinson Bragdon.
Lydia Amy Coonley Ward's remarks at the Wednesday Morning Club, January 22, 1908.
Smith College Monthly, February 1908. Physical Description: Unopened copy and tearsheets.
Memorabilia. Folder 7
Scrap of fabric from Charlotte Wilkinson Bragdon's wedding dress and labels from gifts, 1902.
Smith College alumnae flyer, with image of Charlotte Wilkinson.
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Smith Alumnae Quarterly, Winter 1961 with "Charlotte Wilkinson's Letters" by Laurie Chauncey. Physical Description: 2 copies, and tearsheets annotated by Chandler Bragdon.
Estate documents. Folder 8
Wilkinson family histories. Folder 9
"Charlotte Coffin May Wilkinson" by Katharine May Wilkinson. Physical Description: Typescript and photocopy.
Samuel Joseph May by Katharine May Wilkinson, June 1958. Physical Description: 2 drafts, typescript and photocopy.
Wilkinson romance, broadcast on WFBL, March 27, 1946. Scope and Contents
Story of Alfred Wilkinson Jr. and Varina Ann "Winnie" Davis.
"Three Little Girls and How They Lived," by Marion Wilkinson. Folder 10
"Two Tales," by Katharine Wilkinson, 1891. Folder 11
Obituaries for Charlotte Wilkinson Sr. [Mrs. Alfred Wilkinson], Folder 12 1909.
Poems by Burke Wilkinson, August 24, 1963. Folder 13
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Eugenie (Julier) Macauley Bragdon. Scope and Contents
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 5:1.
Title/Description Instances Personal correspondence and communications from "Oracle." Box 68 Arrangement
The arrangement of the "Oracle" communications is Eugenie M. Bragdon's.
Correspondence, 1912-April 1916. Folder 1
Correspondence, May 1916-1920. Folder 2
Automatic writings. Folder 3
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Powys; Billy Sunday; Van Deering Perrine; Kirk Brice; envelope 1 Thomas Wilfred; Fritz Trautmann, February 23, 1916-January 2, 1919.
Chillicothe and Camp Sherman Song and Light, November- envelope 2 December 1917.
Henry and Chandler Bragdon, March 1916-January 1920. envelope 3
Buffalo Song and Light, March-December 1917. envelope 4
Light, September 1916-May 1918. envelope 5
Syracuse Song and Light, April-August 1917 envelope 6
Trips taken by Claude Bragdon. Orange, NJ Song and Light, envelope 7 April-October 1916., March 1917:
Admonitions short & undated, 1916-1917. envelope 8
Life; Capital Punishment; Suffrage; Lesson of Death; The envelope 9 Cross; Ocean of Experience; Sin; Destiny, January 1916-May 1918.
Automatic writings. Folder 4
Vistas; Confessions; Adelaide Crapsey. envelope 1
Claude & Eugenie. envelope 2
Claude's work in the theater. envelope 3
Bessaraboff and Tertium Organum. envelope 4
Before marriage. envelope 5
Automatic writings. Folder 5
Claude's work. envelope 1
The future and material needs; food, clothes-fur; society. envelope 2
Harry Barnhart. envelope 3
Claude-"tearing in two;" illness; eyes. envelope 4
Theosophical Society. envelope 5
Sibley Watson; Sullivan Book; Rollo Peters; J.G. Cutler, etc. envelope 6
Beauty. envelope 7
Personal Admonition-Eugenie, 1915-17. envelope 8
Carnegie. envelope 9
The Immortal Beloved. envelope 10
Automatic writings. Folder 6
The Mobile Lights; Theater at Kirk's. envelope 1
Eugenie-admonition, 1918. - Page 71- bragdon_family_papers
envelope 2
The picture. envelope 3
Song and Light, Rochester, 1915-16. envelope 4
Unimportant or earlier, 1915 envelope 5
Claude. envelope 6
Lacquer Box; Crucifix; Paisley shawl; Idol; Goddess of envelope 7 mercy; etc.
Selections for Oracle. envelope 8
Automatic writings. Folder 7
Hamlet. envelope 1
1920. envelope 2
Willard Straight. envelope 3
Received February 22. envelope 4
New York Song and Light, 1918. envelope 5
George Eastman. envelope 6
War. envelope 7
Examples of automatic writings used as an illustration in Oracle. Folder 8
Will, Horoscope for Eugenie Macauley by Gertrude de Bielski, Folder 9 1905., May 7, 1912.
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Henry Wilkinson Bragdon. Box 69 Scope and Contents
See also Boxes 19-26; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 5.
Title/Description Instances Published articles and essays, 1940-1955. Folder 1
Published articles and essays, 1956-1959. Folder 2
Published articles and essays, 1960-1963. Folder 3
Published articles and essays, 1964-1968. Folder 4
Published articles and essays, 1969-1979. Folder 5
Reviews, prospectuses, etc. for Henry Bragdon's books. Folder 6
Published articles about Henry Bragdon; memorials; obituaries. Folder 7
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Henry Bragdon; Miscellaneous notes on Woodrow Wilson. Folder 8
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Chandler Bragdon. Scope and Contents
See also Boxes 19-26; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 5:8-13, Boxes 6-7.
Title/Description Instances Chandler Bragdon correspondence, 1916-1941. Box 70
Correspondence, 1916-1927. Folder 1
Correspondence, 1928. Folder 2
Correspondence, 1929-1934. Folder 3
Correspondence, January-March 1935. Folder 4
Correspondence, April-May 1935. Folder 5
Correspondence, June-July 1935. Folder 6
Correspondence, August-September 1935. Folder 7
Correspondence, October 1935. Folder 8
Correspondence, November-December 1935. Folder 9
Correspondence, January 1936. Folder 10
Correspondence, February 1936. Folder 11
Correspondence, March-April 1936. Folder 12
Correspondence, May-December 1936. Folder 13
Correspondence, 1937-1941. Folder 14 Physical Description: Includes photographs.
Chandler Bragdon Correspondence, and miscellaneous, Box 71 1942-1968.
Correspondence, 1942-1963. Folder 1
Correspondence, 1964-1968. Folder 2
Poetry, 1914-1916. Folder 3
"La Chanson des P' tits Bons Enfants." Folder 4 Physical Description: Manuscript.
"1894." Folder 5 Physical Description: Carbon typescript.
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Short story.
"Two Evening Walks,", June 1936. Folder 6 Physical Description: Typescript.
"Communique Comment,", 1939-1941. Folder 7 Scope and Contents
Published essays.
Wedding invitation; Chandler Bragdon and Elizabeth Fowler, Folder 8 December 23, 1937.
Newspaper clippings: wedding, obituary. Folder 9
Household lists, 1938. Folder 10
Memorials, 1969. Folder 11
Diary, 1966-1968. Folder 12
Dice baseball. Folder 13
Peterhouse Sexcentary Club Magazine, Cambridge, May Week Folder 14 program; Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1928., 1929.
Astrological chart for Chandler Bragdon, by G.F. O'Neill, Folder 15 undated. (blueprint)
Commonplace books, 1939-1953 Folder 16
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David Bragdon and Peter Bragdon Box 72 Title/Description Instances David Bragdon. Juvenile drawings, circa 1940. Folder 1
David Bragdon. Photographs, clippings re: sculptures by DB. Folder 2
David Bragdon. Essay "Footnote to a Crusade." Folder 3
David Bragdon. Essay "Indian Art." Folder 4
Peter Bragdon. Juvenile drawings, circa 1940s. Folder 5
Peter Bragdon. Academic materials, Report cards, Folder 6 correspondence, class papers and course information, 1940-1970.
Peter Bragdon. Correspondence, Primarily letters from Peter to his Folder 7 father Henry Bragdon, 1950s.
Peter Bragdon. Correspondence, Primarily letters from Peter to his Folder 8 father Henry Bragdon, 1960s.
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Peter Bragdon. Correspondence, Primarily letters from Peter to his Folder 9 father Henry Bragdon, 1970s.
Peter Bragdon. Correspondence, undated. Primarily letters from Folder 10 Peter to his father Henry Bragdon.
Peter Bragdon. Clippings and correspondence. Folder 11
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May Bragdon. Scope and Contents
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Boxes 8-9.
Title/Description Instances May Bragdon correspondence, and memoirs, 1865-1946, Box 73
Correspondence, 1865-1873. Folder 1
Correspondence, 1874-1898. Folder 2
Correspondence, 1899-1907. Folder 3
Correspondence, January 1908. Folder 4
Correspondence, February-December 1908. Folder 5
Correspondence, 1909-1920. Folder 6
Correspondence, 1921-1938. Folder 7
Correspondence, 1939-1946. Folder 8
Index to letters from Claude Bragdon, 1940-1944. Folder 9
Memorandum of her life. Folder 10
"Random memories of May Bragdon." 2 copies. Folder 11 Physical Description: Typescript.
May Bragdon miscellaneous personal, 1872-1946. Box 74
"Commonplace Book I," c., 1943. Folder 1
Copy of (cancelled) will and financial papers., 1936 Folder 2
Childhood composition, 1872. Folder 3
"The Funeral"; short story, manuscript, c., 1943. Folder 4 Scope and Contents
See also Box 74, folder 1.
Burdick Camp Log, January 1, 1917. Folder 5
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Physical Description: Typescript.
Calling cards. Folder 6
Family histories and biographies. Folder 7 Physical Description: 3 notebooks.
Genealogical material, Bragdon and Shipherd. Folder 8 Scope and Contents
See also Box 48, folders 12-13; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:5; Box 11:1,9,12,17.
Genealogical charts. Folder 9
Miscellaneous notebooks: Books read 1939-1947; Memoranda Folder 10 books (2); Birthday book, 1940; Reading notes, 1940-42; "Nature firsts" 1943.
Party favors, cards and jokes. Folder 11
Miscellaneous labor pamphlets and convention ephemera, Folder 12 1919-1923, 1945.
Memorabilia. Folder 13
"Among the Islands of Georgian Bay," in Recreation, Vol. 20, Folder 14 no. 6, June 1904.
May Bragdon autograph books, 1877-1886, and diary 1880-1884. Box 75
Autograph book, 1877-1881. Folder 1
Autograph book, 1881-1886. Folder 2
Diary, 1880. Folder 3
Diary, September 1881-January 1883. Folder 4
Diary, January 1883-April 1884. Folder 5
May Bragdon Diaries, 1893-1904. Existence and Location of Copies: Existence and Location of Copies
A transcribed and annotated digital edition of the diaries in Boxes 76-78 is available online at https:// maybragdon.lib.rochester.edu/.
Title/Description Instances February 27-December 31, 1893. Box 76A
April 6, 1895-February 26, 1896. Box 76B
February 29, 1896-February 24, 1897. Box 76C
February 25, 1897-November 11, 1898. Box 77A
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November 12, 1898-January 18, 1902. Box 77B
January 19, 1902-February 4, 1904. Box 77C Scope and Contents
For May Bragdon diary February 26, 1904-June 8, 1905, see Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:7.
June 9, 1905-October 17, 1907. Box 78A
October 18, 1907-December 31, 1909. Box 78B
Commonplace book., 1894-1932. Box 78C Scope and Contents
For May Bragdon diaries January 1, 1910-December 31, 1914, see Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:8. For 1943, 1946-1947, see Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:9.
May Bragdon Theater program scrapbooks, 1881-1912. Title/Description Instances 1881-1886. Box 79A Scope and Contents
Includes programs from Oswego High School.
1885-1889. Box 79B
1899-April 1904. Box 80A
May 1904-1912. Box 80B
Loose programs and clippings, 1911-1912. Box 80C
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George Chandler Bragdon & George Lindsay Bragdon Scope and Contents
For George C. and George L. Bragdon obituaries, and other clippings, see also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 9:5 ; Box 11:2. For more George C. Bragdon, see also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Boxes 10-11. For more George L. Bragdon, see also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 11.
Title/Description Instances George Chandler Bragdon correspondence, 1851-1899. Box 81
1857. Folder 1
January-August 1858. Folder 2 - Page 77- bragdon_family_papers
September-December 1858. Folder 3
January-November 1859. Folder 4
December 1859. Folder 5
January-March 1860. Folder 6
April-December 1860. Folder 7
1861-1866. Folder 8
1867-June 1868. Folder 9
July 1868-1869. Folder 10
1870-1871. Folder 11
1872. Folder 12
[1873-1875; none] Folder 13
1876. Folder 14
1877-1879. Folder 15
[1880-1884; none] Folder 16
1885-1889. Folder 17
1890-1899. Folder 18
George Chandler Bragdon Correspondence; Diary, 1891-1910; Box 82 and reading notes, 1900-1920
Correspondence, 1900-1914. Folder 1
Correspondence, 1915-1920. Folder 2
Correspondence, undated. Folder 3
"Favorite Poems." Folder 4
Fire insurance policy, dated, December 10, 1906. Folder 5
Journal; "Old Journals Condensed", 1832-1883 Folder 6
Diary, 1891-1906. Folder 7
Diary, 1906-1910. Folder 8
Notes on heirs and ownership of land of Herman Leroy. Folder 9
Reading notes, circa 1905. Folder 10
Reading notes, 1899, 1909. Folder 11
George Chandler Bragdon: Reading notes, essays, and poetry. Box 83
Reading notes, 1885. Folder 1
Commonplace book, 1894. Folder 2
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Physical Description: Typescript with manuscript corrections. Folder 3
Manuscript of preface to Goldwin Smith's Relations Between Folder 4 America and England.
Journal, April-May 1862. Folder 5
Record of newspaper ventures. Folder 6
Samuel Bragdon in the Revolution. Folder 7 Scope and Contents
Reminiscences recorded by George C. Bragdon.
Poetry by George C. Bragdon. Folder 8
Oversize Sheet music for "Thousand Island River." Music by Mary F. Bunnell, words by George C. Bragdon, 1879.
George L. Bragdon. Scope and Contents
For George L. Bragdon's will, see Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 11:7.
Title/Description Instances Selkirk Bethel Church, undated. Folder 9
Selkirk Bethel Church, 1848-1855. Folder 10 Scope and Contents
See also scroll, housed separately.
Selkirk Bethel Church, Stocks, 1857. Folder 11
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Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon. Scope and Contents
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 11.
Title/Description Instances Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon Diaries, 1860-1881. Box 84
Private journal, 1860-1863. Folder 1
Diary, 1862. Folder 2
Diary, 1864, 1865, 1866. Folder 3
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Diary, 1867, 1868, 1869. Folder 4
Diary, 1870, 1871, 1872. Folder 5
Diary, 1873, 1874, 1875. Folder 6
Diary, 1876, 1877, 1878. Folder 7
Diary, 1879, 1880, 1881. Folder 8
Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon Diaries, 1882-1909. Box 85
Diary, 1882, 1883, 1884. Folder 1
Diary, 1885, 1886, 1887. Folder 2
Diary, 1888, 1889, 1890. Folder 3
Diary, 1891, 1892, 1893. Folder 4
Diary, 1894, 1895, 1896. Folder 5
Diary, 1897, 1898, 1899. Folder 6
Diary, 1900-1904, 1905-1909. Folder 7
Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon Diaries, miscellaneous Box 86 volumes, 1910-1920;
Diary, 1910-1914, 1915-1919. Folder 1
Diary, 1920. Folder 2
"Biographical Items, Vol. III", 1881-1882. Folder 3
"For Smiles. January 25, 1911." Folder 4
Whittier Birthday Book. Folder 5 Physical Description: Printed volume with manuscript notes.
Autograph book, 1857-c. 1880. Folder 6
Marriage license and marriage certificate; The Christian Folder 7 Minister's Affectionate Advice to a Married Couple, March 22, 1860.
Rev. Biddle's address at annual meeting of Women's Missionary Folder 8 Society; Oswego, N.Y., January 13, 1882.
Calling cards. Folder 9
Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon notebooks, 1869-1913. Box 87
A Collection of the Promises of Scripture, inscribed to Katherine Folder 1 Bragdon by her mother, 1857.
Journal; notes about children, May and Claude, 1869-1882. Folder 2
Record of her grandchildren, Henry and Chandler Bragdon, Folder 3 1909-1913.
Notes about Claude Bragdon, 1883-1901. Folder 4 - Page 80- bragdon_family_papers
Daily Food for Christians, 1842. Folder 5 Scope and Contents
Presented by her teacher Helen C. Holdridge, 1842.
New Testament, with annotations. Folder 6
Correspondence, 1853-1860. Folder 7
Correspondence, 1861-1870. Folder 8
Correspondence, 1880-1909. Folder 9
Correspondence, 1910-1920. Folder 10
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Shipherd family. Scope and Contents
See also Box 89 ; Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 11.
Biographical / Historical
The Shipherd family lived in the Albany-Troy area at the end of the 18th century. Fayette Shipherd (1797-1878) and his brother John Jay Shipherd (1802-1844) were Congregational ministers and active abolitionists. John Jay Shipherd was one of the founders of Oberlin College in 1833. Fayette Shipherd married Catherine Schermerhorn, who was descended from an Albany Dutch family. She was an active temperance advocate and travelled throughout New York State preaching against alcohol. Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon (1837-1920) was the daughter of Fayette and Catherine Shipherd, and married George Chandler Bragdon in 1860; they became the parents of Claude Fayette and May Bragdon. Jacob Rudd Shipherd, the brother of Katherine (Shipherd) Bragdon, was a graduate of Oberlin College, and, after the Civil War, a financier active in the Republican Party. (See also the notes made by Henry Wilkinson Bragdon on the Bragdon and Shipherd families, Box 48, folder 12, and the Dictionary of American Biography for profiles of John Jay Shipherd.)
Title/Description Instances Correspondence, Sermons; Fayette Shipherd miscellany, Box 88 1819-1871.
Correspondence, 1819-1826. Folder 1
Correspondence, 1827-1829. Folder 2
Correspondence, 1830-1833. Folder 3
Correspondence, 1834-1850. Folder 4
Correspondence, 1851-1859. Folder 5
Correspondence, 1860. Folder 6
Correspondence, 1861. Folder 7
Correspondence, 1862-1871. Folder 8
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Fayette Shipherd: Confession of Faithand Covenant of the Folder 9 Bethel Free Church, Troy, N.Y., 1835. Physical Description: 3 copies, each with manuscript notations.
Fayette Shipherd: Account of his life and family record, 1846. Folder 10
Fayette Shipherd: Family register. Folder 11
Address to Bible Society of Cambridge, N.Y., 1823. Folder 12
Jubilee address, 1857? Folder 13
Fayette Shipherd: Sermon notes, 1872. Folder 14
Fayette Shipherd: Leather wallet and contents. Folder 15 Physical Description: Includes card for Fayette Shipherd's Select School; Northwestern Freedmen's Aid Commission, Chicago.
Fayette Shipherd: A mother's legacy to her daughter, Mary Folder 16 Elizabeth Shipherd.
Shipherd family. Box 89
Fayette Shipherd: Spiritual testimony and autobiographical Folder 1 notes, manuscript volume, undated.
Fayette Shipherd: Legacy to his wife and children, 1870. Folder 2
Catharine Shipherd: Spiritual Diary, 1832-1835. Folder 3
Catharine Shipherd: Confession of Faith, 1841. Folder 4
Catharine Shipherd: Sermon preached in Watertown, 1854. Folder 5
Jacob Rudd Shipherd: Private Journal and Family Record, Folder 6 1877-1885.
Jacob Rudd Shipherd: Autograph book, 1884. Folder 7
Jacob Rudd Shipherd: Certificate of deposit; Banking House of Folder 8 Jacob Rudd Shipherd, 1872.
Jacob Rudd Shipherd: Documents and papers relating to estate Folder 9 of J.R. Shipherd, 1891-1910.
Jacob Rudd Shipherd: Book lists. Folder 10
Shipherd Family legal documents, 1710-1809. Folder 11
Photographs; Bragdon and Shipherd families. Box 90 Scope and Contents
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 8.
Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon. Folder 1
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George Chandler Bragdon); George Chandler and Katherine Folder 2 Elmina Bragdon.
George Chandler and Katherine E. Bragdon friends. Folder 3
Col. Charles Tappan, August 21, 1890.
Mrs. Sarah J. Nichols, August 18, 1892.
Claude Fayette Bragdon, portraits. Folder 4
May Bragdon. Folder 5
May Bragdon's friends. Folder 6
Louisa May Alcott. Folder 7
Jacob Rudd Shipherd. Folder 8
Catherine (Schermerhorn) Shipherd. Folder 9
Fayette Shipherd. Folder 10
Shipherd family: Jacob Rudd, Elizabeth (Libby); Julia Maria Folder 11 and Katherine Elmina Shipherd.
Shipherds [?]. Folder 12 Physical Description: Ferrotype of three young women found behind portrait of Fayette Shipherd.
Elizabeth Shipherd. Folder 13
Charles Dwight Bragdon, circa 1871. Folder 14
Henry Wilkinson Bragdon. Folder 15 Physical Description: Drawing inscribed to Jo Wilkinson. Scope and Contents
See also Folder 23.
Charlotte Coffin (Wilkinson) Bragdon. Folder 16
Bragdon family (photographs by May Bragdon). Folder 17
Snapshots taken by May Bragdon, 1891-1892. Folder 18
CFB & draftsmen; Green & Wicks, Buffalo, 1890. Folder 19
Unidentified man. Folder 20 Physical Description: Broken ambrotype (lacks case).
Bragdons and Fowlers in the Adirondacks, circa 1950. Folder 21
Henry or Chandler Bragdon; trip to France, circa 1928-1930. Folder 22
Henry Wilkinson Bragdon. Folder 23
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See also Folder 15.
Henry Wilkinson Bragdon; Brooks School football team, 1944. Folder 24
Chandler Bragdon. Folder 25
Charles Fitch. Folder 26
Schermerhorn homestead; Brunswick, N.Y., 1886. Folder 27
Vickery family. Folder 28
Vickery house; Adams, N.Y. Folder 29
Chestnut Hill; Pulaski, N.Y. Bragdon homestead. Folder 30
Lawn tennis, 1890s. Folder 31
Unidentified photographs. Folder 32
Exhibition at University of Rochester Library, 1972. Folder 33
Cased photographs and albums, Bragdon and Shipherd families. Box 91 Physical Description: Items in this box are enclosed in pouches and boxes. Scope and Contents
See also Bragdon Family Papers Addition (D.255), Box 8.
Great-grandfather Salisbury. Folder 1 Physical Description: Daguerreotype.
Great-grandmother Salisbury. Folder 2 Physical Description: Daguerreotype.
George L. Bragdon [?]. Folder 3 Physical Description: Daguerreotype.
Thomas L. Bragdon, Samuel B. Bragdon, and Asa B. Bragdon. Folder 4 Physical Description: Ambrotype.
Charles D. Bragdon. Folder 5 Physical Description: Daguerreotype.
Charles D. Bragdon. Folder 6 Physical Description: Daguerreotype.
Charles D. Bragdon. Folder 7 Physical Description: Ambrotype.
Imogene Melissa Bragdon. Folder 8
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Physical Description: Ambrotype.
Imogene Melissa Bragdon and Nellie Bragdon. Folder 9 Physical Description: Daguerreotype.
Erastus E.E. Bragdon, George L. Bragdon and Charles P. Folder 10 Bragdon. Physical Description: Ambrotype.
Fayette Shipherd. Folder 11
Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Bragdon. Folder 12 Physical Description: Ambrotype.
Unidentified woman. Folder 13 Physical Description: Daguerreotype in mother of pearl inlaid case.
Unidentified male child in plaid dress. Folder 14 Physical Description: Ambrotype.
Unidentified baby. Folder 15 Physical Description: Ferrotype.
Carte de visite album owned by George Chandler Bragdon. Folder 16
Carte de visite album owned by Katherine Elmina (Shipherd) Folder 17 Bragdon, circa 1866-1877.
Carte de visite album owned by May Bragdon. Folder 18
Carte de visite album; Vickerys and Bragdons. Folder 19
Framed snapshot of George C. Bragdon, by May Bragdon. Folder 20
Chamber of Commerce correspondence, June 1915-February Box 92 1917. Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Bragdon, Foster & Gade, Chamber of Commerce representatives, contractors, vendors, suppliers, etc. Some drawings, blueprints, and suppliers' ephemera is included.
June 1915-August 1916. Folder 1
September 1-20, 1916. Folder 2
September 21-October 7, 1916. Folder 3
October 8-24, 1916. Folder 4
October 25-November 7, 1916. Folder 5
November 8-20, 1916. Folder 6
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December 8-31, 1916. Folder 8
January 1-10, 1917. Folder 9
January 11-20, 1917. Folder 10
January 21-31, 1917. Folder 11
February 1-10, 1917. Folder 12
February 11-20, 1917. Folder 13
February 21-30, 1917. Folder 14
Chamber of Commerce correspondence, March-August, 1917. Box 93 Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Bragdon, Foster & Gade, Chamber of Commerce representatives, contractors, vendors, suppliers, etc. Some drawings, blueprints, and suppliers' ephemera is included.
March 1-10, 1917. Folder 1
March 11-20, 1917. Folder 2
March 21-31, 1917. Folder 3
April 1-15, 1917. Folder 4
April 16-30, 1917. Folder 5
May 1-10, 1917. Folder 6
May 11-20, 1917. Folder 7
May 21-31, 1917. Folder 8
June 1-20, 1917. Folder 9
June 21-30, 1917. Folder 10
July 1-20, 1917. Folder 11
July 21-31, 1917. Folder 12
August 1-20, 1917. Folder 13
August 21-31, 1917. Folder 14
Tiles salvaged from the New York Central Railroad Station, Rochester, N.Y. Separated Materials: Separated Materials
Additional tiles and samples of ironwork are housed off-site.
Title/Description Instances Interlocking circle tile in yellow, blue and green; sample 1. Box 94
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Interlocking circle tile in yellow, blue and green; sample 2. Box 94A
Pumpkin colored tile from wainscoting. Box 94B
Two ornamental tiles in green and brown; one curved, one Box 94C square.
Interlocking circle tiles in yellow, blue and green; pumpkin Box 94D colored tile from wainscoting; brown and green square tile
Grueby tiles from drinking fountain. Box 94E Physical Description: Interlocking circle tile from fountain's corner surround, 8 x 8" and flower within a circle tile from below fountain basin, 12.25 x 10."
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Oversize material. Title/Description Instances Claude Fayette Bragdon; boyhood diary. Watertown, N.Y., 1974. Folder 1 Physical Description: 10 galley proofs.
Projective ornament designs [crosses]. Folder 2 Physical Description: extref: Box 44.
Preliminary drawings for projective ornament watercolors., Folder 3 1930s?-1941. Physical Description: 20 pencil, pen and ink.
Projective ornament designs. Folder 4 Physical Description: 3 watercolor panels, 2 watercolor, and blue-print.
Projective ornament. Designs for check safety paper for Todd Co. Folder 5 Physical Description: 4 original ink; typescript explanation; check samples; 6 mounted galleys; 3 galleys.
Platonic solids in plane projection. Folder 6 Physical Description: 4 tracings on linen. Undated.
Original art, dust jackets and title pages for A.A. Knopf. Folder 7 Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Original art, dust jacket for Sensitive Horizons. Folder 8 Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Man the Square: Set of illustrations for lecture [?] Folder 9 Physical Description: 8 watercolors.
Original art, The Frozen Fountain. Folder 10
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Physical Description: 8 pen and ink.
Honorary Degrees. Folder 11
Friends of Claude Bragdon Society; Mexico City, 1938.
Architectural Certificate, New York State., December 1916.
Honorary MA Architecture, University of Michigan, 1931.
Stencil or cut-out for Song and Light lantern. Folder 12
Posters. Folder 13
The Chap-book, December 1895.
The Rochester Post Express, (2 copies)., 1895
The Rochester Post Express / The Best Republican Newspaper in Western NY, 1895.
The Chap-book, "The Juggler Sun,", 1896.
The Chap-book, Coachman and sandwich-board man, (2 copies), 1895-1896.
The Post Express Anniversary number. (8 page supplement), May 4, 1895.
"Borzoi Books are the most interesting" advertising banner. (2 copies)
"A.A. Knopf's Latest Borzoi Book Central Europe...," advertising banner.
Posters. Folder 14
Minstrel, "Benefit for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children," c. 1895-1900. (2 copies), 1895-1900
"An Exhibition of German Posters, Memorial Art Gallery, [Rochester, N.Y.] (2 copies), September 9-30, 1914."
"Harry Barnhart, His Band," c. (2 copies), 1916.
Song and Light printed ephemera. Folder 15
Highland Park, Rochester, N.Y. ; (5 copies), August 1, 1916.
U.S. [Army] Camp, Syracuse, N.Y. ; (3 copies), August 9, 1917.
Delaware Park, Buffalo, N.Y. ; (3 copies), August 31, 1917.
Sing in the New York Community Chorus, Dewitt Clinton High School. (2 copies)
Song and Light, Central Park, New York, September 17-18, 1918. Folder 16 Physical Description: Bus poster. Original pen and ink art.
Miscellaneous oversize tearsheets and reproductions. Folder 17
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"Proposed building for the Rochester Chamber of Commerce," ca., 1915.
Two scene designs for modern play. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Page from a scrapbook. "A prize competitive design for the New York City- Hall, Gordon, Bragdon and Orchard, architects." American Architect and Building News, April 15, 1896. Bookplate for Rose Edith Mills. Cover, The Home Magazine, June 1896. Bragdon's article from Poster Lore, No. 3. April '96.
"Cottage for Mr. A.D. McBride, Irondequoit Bay, New York," and "Stable for Mr. Leo Bloch, Portsmouth Terrace"; Gordon, Bragdon and Orchard. American Architect and Building News,, April 2, 1892.
"Prize Competitive Design for the New York City Hall. Gordon, Bragdon and Orchard, Architects" from American Architect and Building News,, April 18, 1896.
Building Sketch Club's Competition, Second Prize, submitted by Claude F. Bragdon, ca., 1890s.
"Walter Hampden's Shakespearean Stage (for any theatre)," includes plan and perspective for Othello, scene 5. Printed proof, ca., 1925.
Six designs for devices for The Light of Asia.
Rendering (reproduction) of New York Central Railroad Station.
Miscellaneous original artwork. Flatfile 1
Cover art, "Art in Buttons,", 1923. Physical Description: Purple, orange and gold ink, mounted on board signed and dated 1/1/23.
Cover art, "Art in Buttons,", 1923. Physical Description: Purple, green and gold ink, mounted on board signed and dated 1/1/23.
Cover art, "Art in Buttons,", 1923. Physical Description: Pen and ink, signed and dated January 1923, two designs.
Advertisement for Confessions of Two Brothers, Manas Press, 1916. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Title page for Four-Dimensional Vistas, Manas Press, 1915. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Cover for Theosophical Quarterly, Winter, 1938. Physical Description: Pen and ink drawing and blueprint copy.
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Title for "Mathematical Abstractions by Claude Bragdon." Physical Description: Pen and ink.
"Fun with Figures," Claude Bragdon. The Vitaphone Corporation. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Two lessons in Dynamic Symmetry, by Viola deGruchy., June 7-8, 1946, Physical Description: Pencil and colored pencil.
Five charcoal studies from life, ca. 1885-1900.
Design for Song and Light poster of colored lanterns. Physical Description: Watercolor and ink.
Cover art, Minor Italian Palaces,, 1896. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
"Old Colonial Work Salem Mass,", 1893. Physical Description: title: American Architect and Building News
"Front porch to the Smith House, Brighton." Physical Description: Pen and ink, signed "CB".
"In Liseaux, January 11, 1889." Physical Description: Pen and ink, signed "Claude Bragdon."
European archway and steps, 1895. Physical Description: Watercolor, signed "Claude F. Bragdon."
Italian hillside with buildings, 1895. Physical Description: Watercolor and pencil, unsigned.
Italian square with man on bicycle, 1895. Physical Description: Pen and ink, signed "CB".
"Palazzo Pollini, Siena, Via Baldossarre Peruzzi.", July 12, '95. Physical Description: Pen and ink, signed "CB".
"Villa Sergardi, near Siena, July 18, 1895." Physical Description: Pen and ink, signed "CB".
Photographs, Theater. Flatfile 2
Hamlet; Four photographs by Mary Dale Clarke, 1925.
Hamlet; Photograph by H.A. Atwell, Chicago.
Cyrano de Bergerac; Photograph of battle scene by Francis Benjamin, 1925.
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Photographs and photo album, architectural work. Flatfile 2A
Photo album. Title/Description Instances People's Department Store Co. Store for J.W. & J.G. Cutler, Main St. East.
Buell House, 22 Berkeley St. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Mosher House, 216 Alexander St.
St. Paul's Rectory, 65 Barrington St.
Police Precinct House, 740 University Ave. Physical Description: 4 photographs.
Rochester Athletic Association, 72 N. Clinton St. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
General Otis Arch.
W.E. Sloan House, 1250 East Ave. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Eastwood House, 262 Culver Rd. Physical Description: 3 photographs.
Country Club of Rochester. Physical Description: 10 photographs.
Buell House, Portland Ave.
Marchand House, East Ave., Pittsford.
Harvey Cory House, 1270 East Ave. Physical Description: 4 photographs.
House, 18 Hubbell Park, Rochester.
Warham Whitney House, 22 South Goodman St. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Everest House, West Ave. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Schminke House, 57 Barrington St. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Wanzer House, 2145 East Ave. Physical Description: 3 photographs.
R.C. Watson House, 252 Alexander St.
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Whitbeck office, 781 Park Ave.
Genesee Valley Club. Physical Description: 13 photographs.
Livingston County Courthouse, Geneseo, N.Y.
General Otis Arch, June 15, 1900.
"A New York House Front by McKim Mead & White."
Marchand House, 3939 East Ave., Rochester, N.Y., circa 1944. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
John Beckley House, 75 Berkeley St. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
J.A. McBride House, East Ave. Pittsford. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Slemin House, 1422 Highland Ave.
Beekman Little House, Westminster.
First Universalist Church. Physical Description: 4 photographs.
Willard Moore House East Ave., Pittsford? Physical Description: 2 photographs.
H. Barnard House, Colby St. Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Chamber of Commerce floats. Physical Description: 3 photographs.
Egbert Ashley House, Hawthorne St. Physical Description: 2 photographs, including 1 interior.
Bevier Building, 42 S. Washington St. Physical Description: 5 photographs.
Tombstones, James Averell, Watson.
Beckley House, Berkeley St. Physical Description: 3 photographs, including 1 interior.
Goodwin House, 19 Sibley Place. (2 photographs) Physical Description: 2 photographs.
Edward G. Miner House, East & Argyle. (2 photographs) Physical Description: 2 photographs.
John Clubb House, Crosman Terrace.
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Physical Description: 4 photographs, including 2 interiors.
Forbes House, 375 Westminster Rd.
Firestone Garden, Akron, Ohio. Physical Description: 4 photographs.
Original illustrations for The Beautiful Necessity (Manas Press, Flatfile 3 1910).
Original illustrations for A Primer of Higher Space (including Flatfile 4 Man the Square) (Manas Press, 1913). Original illustrations Architecture and Democracy (A.A. Knopf, 1926).
Original illustrations for Projective Ornament (Manas Press, Flatfile 5 1915).
Original illustrations for The Frozen Fountain (A.A. Knopf, Flatfile 6 1932). Scope and Contents
See also Oversize Folder 14.
Original illustrations for miscellaneous essays and books. Flatfile 7
"Art and Geometry." Architectural Review, March-April, 1916.
"Street Lighting." Christian Science Monitor, July 9, 1920.
"Art and Arithmetic." Theatre Arts Monthly, August 1924.
"More Ornament from Magic Squares." Architectural Record,, December 1927.
"Ornament from Platonic Solids." Architectural Record, June 1928.
The New Image, 1931.
The Eternal Poles, 1931.
Unpublished and unidentified illustrations. Scope and Contents
25 pen and ink drawings.
Original illustrations for Projective Ornament; Designs for Flatfile 8 chapter heads, tail pieces, endpapers and borders.
Color music designs. Flatfile 9
"Moonlight Sonata" Quasi una Fantasia I, Ludwig van Beethoven. Physical Description: Prints, 3 with added color.
"Moonlight Sonata" Quasi una Fantasia II, Ludwig van Beethoven.
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Physical Description: Original pen and ink, prints.
Color music designs. Flatfile 10
Sylvia,"Valse Lente" by Léo Delibes. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Sylvia,"Pizzicato" by Léo Delibes. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
"The Skater's Waltz" ("Les Patineurs"), by Émile Waldteufel. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
"Valse Triste," by Jean Sibelius. Physical Description: Pen and ink.
Untitled series. Physical Description: 33 blueprints.
Set of sunbursts. Physical Description: 21 blueprints.
Oversize periodical contributions by Claude Bragdon. Flatfile 11 Scope and Contents
See also Boxes 38-40.
The Architectural Review, Vol. XV, No. 12, December 1908.
The Architectural Review, Vol. IV, No. III, March 1916.
The Architectural Review, Vol. IV, No. IV, April 1916.
The Architectural Review, Vol. IV, No. IX, September 1916.
The Architectural Forum, Vol. XXVI, No. 3, March 1917.
Pyrographic panel, Post-Express Printing Co., Rochester, circa Flatfile 12 1895.
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