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Catalog Record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm84061611
Collection material in French and English
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the LC Catalog. They are grouped by name of person or organization, by subject or location, and by occupation and listed alphabetically.
The papers of Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue, Haitian government official, were given to the Library of Congress by his wife, Esther Dartigue, of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1984.
The collection was processed in 1985. The finding aid was revised in 2012.
It is the researcher's responsibility to determine requirements of domestic copyright laws and international treaties and conventions.
The papers of Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue are open to research. Researchers are advised to contact the Manuscript Reading Room prior to visiting. Many collections are stored off-site and advance notice is needed to retrieve these items for research use.
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: Container number, Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
The papers of Jean Joseph Maurice Dartigue (1903-1983) span the years 1941-1945 and consist of records relating to the Société haitiano-américaine de développement agricole. Together with President Elie Lescot and Minister of Finance M. Abel Lacroix of Haiti, Dartigue established the Haitian corporation in 1941 and became its vice president. Included in the collection are correspondence, minutes, agreements, financial reports, and studies concerning the organization’s founding and mission as an effort during World War II in cooperation with the United States to produce cryptostegia, a fast growing rubber plant. Lands were cleared and several hundred peasant families were displaced in implementing a contract with the Rubber Reserve Company, a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The records, in French and English, were the personal papers of Dartigue and are organized by type of material.
This collection is arranged alphabetically by type of material.