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Title: Laurence Bershad papers
Date (inclusive): 1929-1946
Collection Number: 2021C56
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In English
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes,1 oversize box
(2.25 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Laurence Bershad was a WWII veteran and served as a radar officer on the USS New Jersey. The collection includes a campaign
album, press releases, and photographs.
Creator:
Bershad, Laurence Philip, 1918-2016
source:
Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2021.
[Identification of item], Laurence Bershad papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Laurence Philip Bershad was born in New York City in 1918. He studied electrical engineering at Brooklyn Poly Tech and NYU.
Bershad was a WWII veteran and served as a radar officer on the USS New Jersey. He was also the leader of the photographic
corps charged with documenting the tests at the Bikini Atoll.
Scope and Content of Collection
The Laurence Bershad papers includes an 80-page campaign album produced by Bershad's photographic corps during nuclear testing,
as well as 169 photographs from Bikini Atoll. Also includes press releases concerning the testing, prints of photographs of
the atomic attacks at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Bershad's personal copy of the photograph, "Raising the Flag in Iwo Jima".
The photograph is inscribed to Bershad by the photographer Joe Rosenthal. It was printed shipboard in Guam and is one of the
earliest printings.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Nuclear weapons -- Testing
Nuclear weapons -- Marshall Islands -- Testing
Iwo Jima, Battle of, Japan, 1945
Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
Nagasaki-shi (Japan) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945
Photographs
Photograph albums
Photographic prints
Rosenthal, Joe, 1911-2006