Louis Ledoux: Papua New Guinea Collection
By Willow Auction House
Nov 16, 2021
2 Frassetto Way Lincoln Park, NJ 07035, United States

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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LOT 154:

Ledoux Party Invitations 1940's

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Ledoux Party Invitations 1940's

Various party invitations, Includes a table-setting and menu-plan for a party hosted by Louis Pierre Ledoux.

Includes 4 invitations and envelope. including an invite from Nick Poutursky in Elizabeth, NY complete with a hand drawn map to his house.

Dinner menu and seating chart for a party Louis Pierre Ledoux was hosting for about 25 people. Sometime after 1942. Louis Pierre Ledoux married Joan LL in 1942 after her arrival in US from Austria in 1939.

Date: 1940's
Material: Paperwork
Provenance: Louis Pierre Ledoux Collection



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