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Jul 1, 2021 · 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.”
Oct 1, 2018 · Sensing the hunter-gatherer way of life was on the verge of disappearing due to colonial expansion and Westernization, Laurence Marshall, a physicist and retired co-founder of Raytheon, proposed to the Peabody a comprehensive ethnographic study.
Nov 15, 2023 · The collection of photographic and written records, created by the Laurence K. and Lorna J. Marshall family, documents how Indigenous peoples of the Kalahari Desert region—primarily the Ju/’hoansi, G/ui, and Naro—lived prior to extended contact with the Western world.
Six days inching through heavy sand, a truck falling into an aardvark hole, blazing days and frozen nights: the Marshalls weren’t on a typical family vacation when they set out into the Kalahari Desert, in present-day Namibia, in June 1951. Laurence Marshall was freshly retired from Raytheon; his wife, Lorna, taught English at Mount Holyoke.
Sep 9, 2020 · The Peabody Museum begins a two-year project to catalog, digitize, and share the photographs and records of one of the most significant contributions to American anthropology: the eight Marshall Family expeditions to the northwest Kalahari region of Southern Africa (1950–1961).
In 1950, Laurence K. Marshall and his son 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 the Ju/'hoan of the # Kalahari Desert.
Founders were Laurence K. Marshall, Charles G. Smith, and Vannevar Bush. At first interested in refrigeration technology, they changed their focus to radio engineering. They developed a gas rectifier tube for converting alternating current to direct current.
