Adventurer, Academic, Industrialist: Louis Pierre Ledoux 1936 New Guinea Expedition
In early 1936, on recommendation by American anthropologist Margaret Mead, Louis Pierre Ledoux, recent Harvard University graduate, headed to the lower eastern Sepik River of Papua New Guinea to study the Murik people.
The results of his self-funded expedition is an extraordinary collection of hundreds of artifacts, photographs, manuscripts, diaries, and letters left untouched for 85 years.
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Letter and Documents Pertaining to the War Effort
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Letter and Documents Pertaining to the War Effort
Personal letter (1943?) on War Department, Military Intelligence Service, stationary thanking Louis Pierre Ledoux for (and returning) the book by Stephen Winsor Reed on New Guinea [The Making of Modern New Guinea]; an (incomplete) form collecting data on the less known islands and regions of the Pacific, to be submitted to "interested agencies of the United States Government" with 1942 envelope sent from Yale University Institute of Human Relations.
Date: 1930-40's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection
