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Object Number
51-60-00/1.2
Display Title
Letters and memoranda
Descriptions
Archival Collections/Series
Southwest Africa Expeditions records > 1951 Expedition records from accession file 51-60
Archival Scope and Content
This folder contains corresondence regarding the Marshall Family preparing for the 1951 expedition, various requests for outside support to the expedition by the Marshalls, travel arrangements for the 1951 and 1952-53 expeditions, insurance correspondence, and Dyson's letter from Johannesburg about the expedition. There is some correspondence about some recordings made on the 1951 expedition.
Department
Archival, Paper
Archives
Archival Collection - Folder
Archival Box, Folder
Box 1, Folder 2
Archival Inventory
letters: 3/7/51 Laurence Marshall to A.E. Horne (Chrysler
Corp.)
request for gift or loan of two trucks in return for
publicity
3/14/51 A.E. Horne to Laurence Marshall
request not possible at this time
4/25/51 Laurence Marshall to Customs Director, Walvis
Bay
notice of arrival of trucks and equipment
5/24/51 Rustin McIntosh to Peabody Museum
donation to assist with son' s expenses on
expedition
5/1-6/4/51 Raymond Whitcomb and Peabody Museum
three letters re tickets
1/17/52 Preston Smith to J.O. Brew
technical status of tape recordings
2/8/52 Paul Fejos to J.O. Brew
oscillator and oscillograph
2/12/52 J.O. Brew to Paul Fejos
oscillator and oscillograph
memos: 3/9/51 J.O. Brew to Laurence Marshall
auto insurance in Southwest Africa
4/6/51 J.O. Brew to Laurence Marshall
cable address, information to get cable address
4/25/51 J.O. Brew
Marshall Expedition expenses
Note re cables
Date
1951-1952
Quantity
1
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