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- Summary of Report to the President on the Peace Corps
- Volunteer selection; Volunteer recruitment; Technical training; Shriver, Sargent; Press and media; Kennedy, John F.;
- This report outlines Sargent Shriver's initial assessment of how the concept of the Peace Corps could and should be implemented. The summary report was released to the media on March 5, 1961 by the Office of the White House Press Secretary.
- Press Briefings
- Press Aide to New York Mayor
- Volunteers
- This returning Volunteer from Somalia is serving as a press aide to New York’s Mayor John Lindsay. He is standing in his office at City Hall. 1966
- Agency Photos
- Discussion
- Volunteers
- Volunteers discuss issues with the Country Director. 1968
- Agency Photos
- Conversation Between University Administrator and Volunteer
- Volunteers
- The Vice Chancellor of Dacca University, one of the host institutions for Peace Corps Volunteers serving in East Pakistan since October 1961, chats with the Peace Corps Representative to Pakistan. Looking on is the first secretary and manger of...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteers Arrive in Pakistan
- Volunteers
- The eighth American Peace Corps contingent assigned to Pakistan arrived in Karachi today. The volunteers have been assigned to development projects in both wings of the country. On hand to greet them were Mr. Richard Bowman, deputy PC...
- Agency Photos
- Conversation in the General Store
- Volunteers; Community development
- While eating an ice cream, this Peace Corps Volunteer and the owner of the post office and general store talk about a coming meeting of the Hardburley Improvement Association.
- Agency Photos
- Conversing at an Inter-Cultural Program
- Volunteers; Host Community
- A Peace Corps Volunteer who teaches industrial arts at Dacca University, the mother of the volunteer’s in-country training host family, the Vice Chancellor of Dacca University, a Peace Corps Volunteer who works as a carpenter in the Mirpur...
- Agency Photos
- Card Cataloging
- Volunteers; Literacy
- This Peace Corps Volunteer places a newly-made card catalog in the file at the Jamaica Library Service where she works. The Volunteer has had 30 years of library and teaching experience.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteers in Training
- Volunteers; Pre-service Training (PST)
- Some teachers retirea at the age of 60, but not these two, bound for Colombia. He was superintendent of education and she an elementary school teacher when they decided to resign, lease their ranch, sell the car, and join the Peace Corps. They are...
- Agency Photos
- Press Secretary Checking Press Release
- Volunteers; Press and media
- This returning PCV from Somalia is serving as a press aide to New York’s Mayor John Lindsay. He is checking to wording of a news release. 1966
- Agency Photos
- Press Aide to New York Mayor
- Volunteers; Press and media
- This returning Volunteer from Somalia, is serving as a press aide to New York’s Mayor John Lindsay. He is standing in city hall.
- Agency Photos
- Press Aide and Mayor at Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
- Volunteers; Press and media
- This returned Volunteer from Somalia (left, foreground) is serving as a press aide to New York’s Mayor John Lindsay. He and the Mayor are at the ribbon cutting ceremony at Riker’s Island. 1966
- Agency Photos
- Crossing Bridge into Village
- Water and sanitation; Community development
- A group of Peace Corps Volunteers are pictured crossing a bridge, typical of those in the semi-tropical monsoon country of East Pakistan. The small river serves as bathing facility, sewage system, laundry area and source of water supply for the...
- Agency Photos
- A Peace Corps Wedding
- Weddings; Celebrations; Volunteers
- Two Peace Corps Volunteers met and married during their service in Sierra Leone.
- Staff Photos
- A Towering Task (February 1, 1961 draft)
- Wiggins, Warren
- Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women's movement
- Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors, October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City. Women in the Peace Corps by Sargent Shriver.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Pakistan Sign
- Architecture; Training sites
- This was the sign placed at our headquarters building in Lahore, Pakistan - we shared the building with a dentist's office. The Urdu reads 'Amriki Dostamin.'
- Volunteer Photos
- Road Building Project in the Sindh
- Transportation
- Road building project in the area between Thoro Ghot and Tandojam, Sindh, Pakistan. Taken in the early summer of 1963.
- Volunteer Photos