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- Young Women in Contrast
- This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Shopkeeper in Afghanistan
- Young boy by a 5 o'clock razor blade sign. He is the shopkeeper in charge while his father is away.
- Volunteer Photos
- Wrestling on the Darzak
- My assignment in 1972 was creating a photo essay on the Peace Corps/USAID Project called Operation Help. A book was published for the Afghan government to document the project that fed 250,000 people before the winter of 1972.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Project, Zaire 1971
- Volunteers with their surveillance teams in Zaire. The surveillance teams provided vaccinations to pursue any subsequently reported cases of smallpox.
- Volunteer Photos
- Winter of 1971
- This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
- Volunteer Photos
- We Three
- In our house on the compound of Akrokerr Teacher Training College. Traditional Kente cloth hangs on the wall, Adinkra cloth covers the table.
- Volunteer Photos
- Wash Day
- The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site in Jawand, Afghanistan (1972). Villagers maintained their daily chores during the food distributions.
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteer in Malta
- This shows a Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Malta 1970-1972, working as a librarian at the National Library for the first year and at the University of Malta Library for the second. He previously served in Turkey at the Middle East Technical...
- Volunteer Photos
- Visitor from Teheran
- This picture is of a Peace Corp staff member from Teheran and his guide and me. I didn't have many visitors in my two years in Iran.
- Volunteer Photos
- Villager in Sangbast, Iran 'Pir Ali?'
- Taken in march 1971 following the Language and Cross Cultural workshop held in Mashad.
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Child
- This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
- Volunteer Photos
- Urairat, English Major, Petchburi Teacher's College
- Urairat in new graduation dress. A wonderful woman and student. Urairat came from a poor family in Surin, Thailand and is now an English Teach in Surin. Bangkok, Thailand, 1973.
- Volunteer Photos
- Two Old Ladies
- I served as town photographer while teaching secondary school in Kolahun, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. This sitting was of an older woman and her grand daughter who were both called "Old Lady." Out of respect for her age, the woman was Old...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tribal Chief
- One of the region's tribal chiefs and his court.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Students & Staff of the Ghana Institute of Journalism, 1970
- This was a photo of the students and staff (seated; I am seated 2nd from left)) at the Ghana Institute of Journalism, in Accra, where I taught English, Literature, and Current Events between 1968-71. In the three years that I taught there, this...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Play Devil and Liberian Ingenuity
- Music and dance are part of Liberian life. In 1972 some of the people in Kolila, Liberia where I was the first Peace Corps volunteer from 1971-1973 surprised me with a visit from the Play Devil. The sounds of one musician soon called many of the...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Teacher at Desk
- Claire, Thai 35 Teacher, working at a desk at Petchburi Teacher's College, Petchburi Road, Bangkok, Thailand, 1973.
- Volunteer Photos
- Street Scene
- This woman is on a typical street in Tehran, Iran, 1970.
- Volunteer Photos
- Soi Petchburi Local Shoemaker
- This is a photo of the shoemaker who repaired shoes on the corner of the street I lived on. Next to him is the woman who sold fruits and vegetables. The street is Soi Petcburi in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Volunteer Photos