Identifier
MS 002
Language
English
Publication Date(s)
Revised in 2015
Abstract
Dr. Bertner, one of founders of the Texas Medical Center in Houston Texas, was its first President from 1945 to 1950. He was also the acting director for the first four years of the existence of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Bertner was active in leading many medical organizations and institutions in the first half of the 20th century in Texas and in the nation. These papers provide information about his life, and to the development of the Texas Medical Center and its institutions. See more at MS 002.
Keywords
Ernst William Bertner (1889-1950), Hugh Roy Cullen (1881-1957), Jesse Holman Jones (1874-1956), Julia Williams Bertner Naylor, Emanuel Rivici, William D. Seybold, Texas Medical Center Inc. (Houston, Texas), Hugh Hampton Young (1870-1945)
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Ernst William Bertner (1908-1978), "MS 002 Guide to the Ernst William Bertner Papers (1917-1952)" (2022). Manuscript Finding Aids. 4.
https://digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu/findingaids/4
Comments
This collection was accessioned and processed in three distinct periods of donation. In 1974 and 1975, Mrs. Julia Williams Bertner Naylor and William D. Seybold, MD donated papers to the Archive in 1974 and 1975. The Collection was organized by Randy Sparks in 1983. In 2006, papers were added to this Collection from the R. Lee Clark, MD papers (MS070). In 2013, Dr. Bertner's great niece, Julie Thurmond, donated materials to the Archive. Find out more at https://archives.library.tmc.edu/ms-002.