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Leonidas H. Berry papers
- Title
- Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1932-1988.
- Author
- Berry, Leonidas H.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 281 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 2 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 281 Box 2 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 3 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 281 Box 3 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Summary
- The Leonidas H. Berry Papers primarily document the medical career of this well-known gastroenterologist and consist of personal and professional papers; writings pertaining to his profession, his family history, and the contributions of blacks to medicine.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- African American physicians > Illinois
- National Medical Association (U.S.)
- Berry, Leonidas H > I wouldn't take nothin' for my journey
- Berry, Llewellyn L (Llewellyn Longfellow), 1874-1954
- African Americans > Societies, etc
- Families > Religious life > United States
- African Americans in medicine
- Scrapbooks
- African Methodist Episcopal Church
- African Americans > Religion
- Families > United States > Religious life
- Gastroenterologists > United States
- African American inventors
- Genre/Form
- Scrapbooks.
- Note
- Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
- Source (note)
- Berry, Leonidas H.
- Biography (note)
- Leonidas H. Berry, born in 1902, is a gastroenterologist, medical pioneer, and son of Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry, the General Secretary of the Department of Home and Foreign Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1933 until his death in 1954.
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- Cataloged
- Call Number
- Sc MG 281
- OCLC
- NYPW088000005-A
- Author
- Berry, Leonidas H.
- Title
- Leonidas H. Berry papers, 1932-1988.
- Biography
- Leonidas H. Berry, born in 1902, is a gastroenterologist, medical pioneer, and son of Reverend Llewellyn L. Berry, the General Secretary of the Department of Home and Foreign Missions of the African Methodist Episcopal Church from 1933 until his death in 1954. He is a 1924 graduate of Wilberforce University and completed his studies at Rush Medical College of the University of Chicago in 1929. During his career, he was affiliated with several hospitals in Chicago.Berry was the first African American specialist in the field of digestive diseases and endoscopy. He developed one of the early gastroscopes known as the Eder-Berry gastrobiopsy scope. A member of the National Medical Association, Berry was president in 1965. He is the author of numerous articles and a book about his medical speciality, and was instrumental in establishing a health program for the A.M.E. Church.Berry is also widely known for leadership in voluntary community health programs. Additionally, he wrote a family history, "I Wouldn't Take Nothin' for My Journey."
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- Sc MG 281