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Leonidas H. Berry photograph collection

Title: Leonidas H. Berry photograph collection [graphic].
Author: Berry, Leonidas H.
Publication: [1932-1986]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	box 2	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Leonidas H. Berry Collection box 2	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	box 1	Still image	Use in library	Sc Photo Leonidas H. Berry Collection box 1	Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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p1bc Berry, Leonidas H. Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1932-1988 (CstRLIN)NYPW088000005-A

Description

147 items (.5 lin. ft., 2 boxes); 26 x 21 cm. and smaller.
34 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
69 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
12 photographic prints : col. ;
16 photographic prints : col. ;
2 photographic prints : silver gelatin, b&w ;
12 photomechanical prints : halftone, b&w ;
1 postcard : col. ;
1 copy negative : b&w ;

Summary

The Leonidas H. Berry Photograph Collection depicts some aspects of Berry's personal life and his career as a gastroenterologist and health official, from the early 1900s to the 1980s.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Portrait photographs – 1900-1989.
Group portraits – 1900-1989.
Snapshots – 1970-1989.
Postcards.
Gelatin silver prints – 1900-1989.
Dye coupler prints – 1970-1989.
Halftone photomechanical prints – 1960-1969.
Facsimiles – 1980-1989.
Photomontages – 1970-1979.

Note

Title devised by cataloger.
Some photographs have photographer's or photography studio's handstamp on verso; one item bears photographer's blindstamp; many items have handwritten descriptive information on verso; some photographs have handwritten or printed captions on recto, or handwritten or printed captions attached to verso; some items bear typewritten captions on either verso or recto.
All photomechanicals are mounted and bear printed captions; some photographs bear inscriptions; one photograph has cropping marks; some items are duplicates.
Collection contains work by Norman L. Hunter, Todd Duncan, Hal A. Franklin III, Clifford Murphy, Leonidas H. Berry and Rhoden Photo & Press Service, among others.

Biography (note)

Leonidas H. Berry, gastroenterologist, researcher, and writer, was born in 1902 in North Carolina, the eldest son of the Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry, the Secretary of Missions for the African Methodist Episcopal Church for over 20 years.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1932-1988.

Publications (note)

I wouldn't take nothin' for my journey : two centuries of an Afro-American minister's family / Leonidas H. Berry. Chicago, Ill. : Johnson Publishing Co., 1981.

Call Number

Sc Photo Leonidas H. Berry Collection

OCLC

NYPG98-F199

Author

Berry, Leonidas H.

Title

Leonidas H. Berry photograph collection [graphic].

Imprint

[1932-1986]

Biography

Leonidas H. Berry, gastroenterologist, researcher, and writer, was born in 1902 in North Carolina, the eldest son of the Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry, the Secretary of Missions for the African Methodist Episcopal Church for over 20 years. Berry, who spent his career affiliated with several Chicago area hospitals, was the first African-American specialist in the field of digestive diseases and endoscopy. Among his contributions to his profession were the development of the Eder-Berry gastrobiopsy scope; the establishment of one of the first gastroscopy clinics in the United States at Chicago's Provident Hospital; and being the first physician to perform gastroscopies at several Chicago hospitals during the 1930s and 1940s. He also wrote medical texts and articles for medical journals; authored a family history; was founder of the A.M.E. Church's National Health Commission; a member and president (in 1965) of the National Medical Association; and served on the Johnson Administration commission to implement Medicare. Berry died in Chicago in 1995.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Leonidas H. Berry Papers, 1932-1988.

Publications

I wouldn't take nothin' for my journey : two centuries of an Afro-American minister's family / Leonidas H. Berry. Chicago, Ill. : Johnson Publishing Co., 1981.

Local Note

Sc MG 281

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Berry, Leonidas H. Photographer

Duncan, Todd. Photographer

Franklin, Hal A. Photographer

Hunter, Norman L. Photographer

Murphy, Clifford. Photographer

Rhoden Photo & Press Service (Chicago, Ill.)

Found In:

p1bc Berry, Leonidas H. Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1932-1988 (CstRLIN)NYPW088000005-A

Research Call Number

Sc Photo Leonidas H. Berry Collection

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