[1] Bramell presented a paper on "Government and Justice in New Guinea" to the anthropology stream of the Science Congress held in Sydney in August 1932.
[5] When she began work at the Australian Museum in February 1933[6] she was the first person with a university degree and first woman to be employed in a scientific role within its Anthropology Department.
[1] Bramell married McCarthy on 28 March 1941 at St John's Church of England in Darlinghurst, at which time she was forced to resign from the Museum due to Public Service Board requirements at the time forbidding married women's employment in the Public Service.
[8] In 1946 the Australian Museum published The Stone Implements of Australia, written by her husband Frederick "Assisted by Elsie Bramell, MA, DipEd and H. V. V.
[10] A laboratory, the Elsie Bramell Room, at the Northern Territory University in Darwin, was named in her honour.