//Kushay telling Laurence, Ledimo, and John that //Ao has gone to the farms, 2001.29.621

In June of 1950, Laurence K. Marshall, former chairperson of Raytheon Company, and his 17-year-old son John trekked into the deserts of Southern Africa seeking the famed “Lost City of the Kalahari.” They did not find a lost city, but this expedition began a life-long relationship between the Marshall Family and people of the Kalahari Desert. Ten years, eight expeditions, and close to 40,000 images resulted in one of the most significant anthropological field projects of the twentieth century.... Read more about Marshall Family Archives Digitization Project