Select digitized items from the outdoor exhibition Science and Survival, on view from October 2022-April 2023.
Materials in this exhibition are from the Archival Collections, the Papers of Georg and Max Bredig, and the Papers of Max Bredig.
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59 items
Photograph album belonging to Max Albert Bredig
- Circa 1925 – 1927
An album belonging to Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977), the majority of which contains photographs of Max with his family and friends participating in leisure activities such as hiking and boating. Notably, there is a…
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39 items
Bredig Family Album
- Circa 1930
Photograph album belonging to Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) and family. The album includes images of chemistry laboratories and apparatus as well as images of Max and his father, Georg Bredig (1868-1944), amongst their…
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18 items
Bredig Family Album
- 1917 – 1918
Album belonging to the Bredig family. Includes photographs of Marianne Bredig (1903-1986) and Max Bredig (1902-1977) as children, as well as their parents, Georg Bredig (1868-1944) and Rosa Bredig née Frankel…
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2 items
Max and Lydia Bredig with Marianne and Viktor Homburger in Colorado
- Circa 1943
Black and white photograph of Max Bredig (1902-1977), third from left, with his wife, Lydia Bredig née Levy, to his right, and his sister and brother-and-law, Marianne and Viktor Homburger, on his left. The group of…
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Letter from Marianne and Viktor Homburger to Georg and Max Bredig, April 15, 1941
- 1941-Apr-15
In a joint letter to Max Bredig (1902-1977) and Georg Bredig (1868-1944), Marianne Homburger (1903-1987) and her husband, Viktor Homburger (1888-1968), describe their life in Marseille, France after their release from…
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Portrait of Georg Bredig
- 1930s
Photograph of Georg Bredig (1868-1944) seated at a desk in a library or study, regarding the book and scattered papers in front of him.
Georg Bredig was a German physical chemist known for his work with catalysts,…
- Subject Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Chemists, College teachers
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Letter from Georg Bredig to the Daniel Sieff Research Institute
- 1937-May-21
Fearing that his library might be destroyed under the Third Reich, Georg Bredig (1868-1944) offers to send his publications to the Daniel Sieff Institute in Rehovot, Palestine. The Daniel Sieff Research Institute was…
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2 items
Georg Bredig's immigrant identification card
- 1940-Jan-11
Immigrant identification card belonging to Georg Bredig, 1868-1944 (his birth year is misprinted as 1968 on the card). The identification name on the card is "Salomon J. G." for Salomon Julius Georg Bredig. "Salomon…
- Creator Of Work United States. Department of Labor
- Subject Identification cards, Bredig, Georg, 1868-1944, Emigration and immigration
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Photograph of Alfred and Eva Schnell
- After 1920 – before 1944
Photograph of Alfred Schnell (1900-1944), Eva Schnell (1913-1944), and Eva's mother seated in lawn chairs. Eva's mother is seated in the foreground.
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Letter from Arthur and Erna Dalem (Alfred and Eva Schnell) to Max Bredig, July 3, 1943
- 1943-Jul-03 (sent)
- 1943-Nov-24 (received)
Message from Alfred Schnell (1900-1944) and Eva Schnell (1913-1944) to Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977). Alfred Schnell was a former colleague of Max Bredig. In the early 1940s, Alfred and his wife Eva fled to The Hauge to…
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Telegram from Max Bredig to Marianne Homburger, April 4, 1941
- 1941-Apr-04
Telegram from Max Albert Bredig (1902-1977) informing his sister Marianne Homburger (1903-1986) that he has secured three tickets for the S.S. Nyassa.
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Radiogram from Georg Bredig to Max Bredig, January 14, 1940
- 1940-Jan-14
Georg Bredig (1868-1944) tells his son Max Bredig (1902-1977) that he has sent his documents to Princeton University and that he should be leaving for the United States soon.
