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- 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
- Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy
- Volunteer recruitment; Wofford, Harris
- Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
- Brochures
- Peace Corps placement test (poster)
- Volunteer recruitment; Marketing campaigns
- This poster advertises an early Peace Corps placement test held July 11, 1964.
- Posters and Graphics
- Colombia V group arriving at El Dorado Airport, Bogota in 1963
- Transportation; Pre-service Training (PST)
- Pictured are members of Colombia V, a rural community development group that trained at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. After the photo op, the Volunteers sang the Colombian National Anthem for the press and Colombian dignitaries.
- Staff Photos
- Volunteers on the Road
- Food and meals
- Two Rural Development Volunteers in Guinea (1964) are having lunch on the road. They had stopped in a village, bought something to eat, traveled a bit more, and then stopped to have lunch. They were new volunteers and appear to be somewhat amused...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Village Craftmen's Pride
- This walking suspension bridge near Macenta, Guinea, was made of rope, hand woven from local fibers. The photo dates from 1964. The villagers used the bridge, and travelers in vehicles used a ferry. In the late 1990, the RPCVs of Guinea were...
- Volunteer Photos
- Driving Lessons
- Training; Training groups; Transportation
- A driving instructor waits patiently whily one of his pupils figures out how to get out of the chuckhole that she has just driven into. The women are PCV Colombia trainees. This was taken near Taos.
- Agency Photos
- Physical education in the Peace Corps
- Sports; Games; Health
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Meet the Press, December 15, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development
- Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.
- Press Briefings
- Address by Sargent Shriver at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, November 15, 1964
- Shriver, Sargent; Doctors; Nurses;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's address at Albert Einstein School of Medicine, Yeshiva University, New York City, November 15, 1964.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Remembering Sarge: One Year Later - A Conversation with Mark Shriver
- Shriver, Sargent
- Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Shriver In Nepal, 1964
- Peace Corps Directors; Shriver, Sargent; Transportation
- This photo shows Sargent Shriver paying a visit to Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal in 1964.
- Agency Photos
- Registered nurses in the Peace Corps
- Nurses; Medicine; Health
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps Times (Partnership Edition, 2012)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Partnership Edition, 2012)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2012)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2012)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2012)
- Newsletters--2010s
- full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2012)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times 50th Edition, 2011
- Newsletters--2000s; Anniversaries
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (50th Edition, 2011).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 4, 2008)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the PEace Corps Times (Issue 4, 2008)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2010)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 3, 2010)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times 50th Anniversary Issue, 2011
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (50th Anniversary Issue, 2011)
- Newsletters