He established a museum and art gallery,[3] and collected a notably comprehensive library of the literature on tobacco, in all its forms and almost all languages, with pamphlets, engravings and other publications filling 17 large volumes.
For his fine work, Bragge received distinctions from the emperor Don Pedro II,[2] including the Order of the Rose.
[9] Bragge built the first line that was hauled by the locomotive, La Porteña, on the Ferrocarril Oeste de Buenos Aires.
[2][9] He collected gems and precious stones from all over Europe, as well as 13,000 pipes, hundreds of types of tobacco, and snuff boxes.
[6][11] His descendants include a daughter, Mrs W. H. Haywood,[1] who presented to the Birmingham Central Reference Library, Language and Literature Department, a marble profile medallion portrait of her father aged 42, sculpted by Edward William Wyon in 1865.