Mary E. Binford

Title: Mary E. Binford
LC Subject: Universities and colleges--Faculty Portraits Library employees Academic libraries
Description: Mary E. Binford was a catalog assistant for the library at Oregon State College from 1937 to 1940. Binford was born in 1904, in Carthage, Indiana. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Briham(?) College in 1926, and her Bachelor of Library Science from Columbia University in 1929. Her major fields of study were English, Spanish, and French. For years, Binford worked in various libraries in Indiana and New York. Before coming to OSC, she was working at the public library in El Paso, Texas. One of the reasons she gave for wanting to move to Oregon State for her job was a change of climate. She was hired by OSC in 1937 at an annual salary of $1,800. In 1940, Binford became a continuations cataloger, with the same salary. She also turned in her resignation, citing illness.
Work Type: photographic prints photographs black-and-white photographs
Date: 1936-06
Identifier: P092:0756
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