Series IV: Photographs and Memorabilia, 1980-2013, inclusive

This series consists of approximately 100 black-and-white and color prints of various sizes, 19 color slides, a small amount of negatives, and one black-and-white contact sheet, with portraits, event and documentary photographs from circa 1980 to 1999. This series also includes a small amount of artifacts and memorabilia from Brenda Berkman's career as a firefighter including badges, membership cards, a UWF pin, FDNY calendars, and ephemera related to Berkman's termination in 1983.

Photographs include a 5x7 black-and-white print and corresponding 4x5 negative of Berkman in FDNY uniform; black-and-white prints, and color prints and negatives, from a City Council Press Conference on July 19, 1992; 4x6 color prints from a Women's Action Coalition Demonstration against FDNY sexual harassment on September 10, 1992; and 8x10 black-and-white prints including Brenda Berkman speaking at a press conference with city officials, of Women Tell the Truth: A Conference on Parity, Power and Sexual Harassment on April 25th, 1992 at Hunter College, including Anita Hill and Gloria Steinem, and of Berkman and Comptroller Elizabeth Holtzman. Two large color group portraits of women firefighters include the Fourth National Conference of Fire Service Women in San Diego in 1991.

Color slides, mostly from 1982, include images of the first women firefighters training for their physical exam in 1982, including at the Fire Academy on Randall's Island; candidate Katrina Cannon taking the oath of office in 1982 as a probationary firefighter, representing the first group; portraits of Brenda Berkman and attorney Robert King; as well as a group portrait, circa 1988, of the first women