Accession Inventory of the Laurence Bershad papers
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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
Access
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or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
Use
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Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2021.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Laurence Bershad papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Biographical Note
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
Accession Inventory
Processing Information
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has yet to be created. Additionally, no attempt at intellectual arrangement has been made. The depth of description varies
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box 3, folder 12
Operation Crossroads
1946
box 3, folder 13
[Untitled thesis illustrations]
1940
box 1, folder 1-10
[Untitled file] [Folders 1-10 of 13]
1929-1946
box 2, folder 1-3
[Untitled file] [Folders 11-13 of 13]
1929-1946
box 2, folder 4-6
[Untitled file] [Folders 1-3 of 3]
circa 1946
box 3, folder 1
[Untitled file]
circa 1946
box 3, folder 2
Japan and Hiroshima Where Atom Bomb Hit--Day After
circa 1945
box 3, folder 3
Shots of Hawaii
circa 1946
box 3, folder 4
Boss - Shots Aboard Ship General
circa 1946
box 3, folder 5
Boss - Shots Aboard Ship General
circa 1946
box 3, folder 6
[Untitled files]
circa 1946
box 3, folder 7
Personnel Shots Aboard Ship
circa 1946
Audiovisual material
Scope and Contents
Contains one 35mm motion picture film reel.