Bertha Brainard

Title: Bertha Brainard
LC Subject: Portraits Physicians Universities and colleges--Employees
Description: Dr. Bertha Brainard was an Assistant Physician for Oregon State College’s Student Health Services in 1940. Brainard was born in 1894, in Anamosa, Iowa. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Dakota in 1916, and her Bachelor of Arts in medicine in 1929. She completed her M.D. at the University of Chicago in 1931. She previously had a private medical practice, and worked in student health services at Jamestown College prior to joining OSC. She was 46 when she was hired at OSC, which meant there were concerns she was too old to work long enough to collect retirement benefits. She was hired on an annual basis in 1940, so the Board of Education would not have to be responsible for providing retirement annuity. Her annual salary was $2,700.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1940-06
Identifier: P092:0755
Rights: In Copyright
Local Collection Name: President's Office Photographs, 1923-1998 (P 092)
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center Historical Images of Oregon State University
Primary Set: OSU Special Collections & Archives Research Center
Institution: Oregon State University