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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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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
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 ;

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]

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. The collection includes individual and group portraits and candid shots of Berry, members of his family, and some of his professional colleagues; some images of dwellings and family travels; views of professional gatherings and exhibits, medical demonstrations, and gastroscopy classes; and a limited number of images depicting the career of the Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry, Leonidas' father, with the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Some images were used for Berry's book "I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey."

Personal and family photographs include a studio protrait of Berry, aged 4, with his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Llewellyn Berry, and brother Richard Otis (1906); a snapshot of Berry and his mother, Beulah, at his graduation from medical school, University of Chicago (1930); snapshots of Berry and his first wife, Ophelia, at Paradise Lake, Michigan (1936); portraits of his second wife, Emma (1959 and 1975); a studio portrait of Berry's mother, Beulah, with his daughters, Sylvia and Judith (n.d.); Berry with daughter, Judith Berry Griffin (1982); a Department of Transportation publicity photograph of Berry's stepson, Alvin E. Harrison (ca. 1986); photo reproductions of portraits of Berry's grandfather, John Augustus Berry, and maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Jordan Harris (ca. late 19th century); an Army portrait of brother Llewellyn, Jr. (1944); a group portrait of the Berry family at the A.M.E. General Conference in Kansas City, Kansas (1948); a portrait of Rev. and Mrs. Llewellyn Berry on their fiftieth wedding anniversary (1950); a group portrait of the Berry family upon the occasion of the Rev. Berry's funeral (1954); Berry, in cap and gown, at the University of Chicago, when he received the Rudolf Schindler Award from the American Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (1976); and portraits of Berry in his office (1982).

Also included are some views of the voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in which Berry participated (1965); and snapshots of a trip to the Josiah Henson House in Dresden, Ontario, Canada (1976). Henson, who escaped from slavery in the United States in 1830, was the life story that inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

The personal photographs also depict some aspects of the career of the Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry, including a group portrait of Rev. Berry and the African Methodist Episcopal Church Cuban Commission, when he served as Secretary of Missions for the A.M.E. Church (n.d.); an exterior view of the A.M.E. Missionary Headquarters in New York City were Rev. Berry resided (1933-1954); and views of the Berry residence in Norfolk, Virginia (1916-1921) and parsonages (Portsmouth (Va.) Emmanuel A.M.E., 1921-1926 and St. John A.M.E., 1927-1932, Norfolk, Va.), when he served as a local A.M.E. minister.

Images of Leonidas Berry's medical career include Berry in a group portrait of the Pathology Department, Cook County Hospital, Chicago (1932); in a group portrait of medical officers with the 8th Regiment, Illinois National Guard, at Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois (1932); holding a gastroscope, with an unidentified medical illustrator, at Provident Hospital, Chicago (1939); giving a gastroscopy demonstration at Harlem Hospital for the 1939 National Medical Association (N.M.A.) convention in New York; a group portrait of Berry and medical collegues, possibly at Cook County, Graduate School of Medicine, Chicago (1947); a group portrait from an American Medical Association trustee gathering for N.M.A. trustees and officers (1965); Berry speaking at a press conference on descrimination at a Chicago hospital (1966); views of a tribute to Berry for 40 years of service as director of the National Health Commission, A.M.E. Church (1980); and posing with his book "I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey," with Dempsey J. Travis, author of "An Autobiography of Black Chicago" (1981). Also included are a photograph of the cover of the Berry-authored medical book, "Gastrointestinal Pan-endoscopy"; a group of mounted magazine clippings, from N.M.A. Journal, used for a 1963 exposition in Chicago; and a series of views of mounted displays depicting various gastroenterology conferences and groups and gastroscopy classes from the 1930s to 1960s.

Among the individuals depicted in the collection are some prominent African-American physicians and surgeons, including Clarence S. Greene, Kenneth W. Clement, Eugene H. Dibble, William A. Warfield, and Louis T. Wright, as well as scientist George Washington Carver. Also depicted is a photomontage of the international group of editors and senior contributors to "Gastrointestinal Pan-Endoscopy" (1974).

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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