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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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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Paper material

box 3, folder 11

Bachelor's Thesis 1940

box 3, folder 12

Operation Crossroads 1946

box 3, folder 13

[Untitled thesis illustrations] 1940

 

Photographs

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

box 3, folder 8

Baker Blast circa 1946

box 3, folder 9

Queen Day circa 1946

box 3, folder 10

Queen Day circa 1946

box 4, folder 1

[Untitled file] 1946

box 4, folder 2

[Untitled file] 1946

 

Audiovisual material

Scope and Contents

Contains one 35mm motion picture film reel.