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- Gbedin, Liberia
- Terrain; Knight Foundation; Agriculture
- Gbedin, Liberia
- Agency Photos
- Trucks for Tractors and Grain
- Transportation; Agriculture
- Trucks for moving coop tractors and grain
- Agency Photos
- Crossing an Irrigation Channel
- Transportation; Agriculture
- Crossing an irrigation channel
- Agency 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
- 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
- Tonga Repair shop in Pakistan
- Transportation
- Open air tonga repair facility - note hooka (waterpipe).
- Volunteer Photos
- Tonga in Hyderabad, Sindh
- Transportation
- Tonga on the street in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan back in 1962 - this was the equivalent of a cab and what we used when we left the train station. They were highly and brightly decorated and carried up to six people at once. See also the picture of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Lesotho Bus Ride
- Transportation
- Waiting for the Lesotho Freight Bus to take us from Qacha's Nek to Sethlabathebe National Park. Our backpacks were loaded in the undercarriage of the bus, along with a few reluctant sheep.
- Volunteer Photos
- Making a world of difference: the toughest job you'll ever love
- Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a 1997 recruiting brochure.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps Volunteer Application, 1968
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1968 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps Application, 1993
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1993 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Volunteer aids in the Farming Process
- Volunteerism; Agriculture
- Mauritania
- Agency 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
- Peace Corps Guinea Training
- Agriculture; Education
- Training center in Dubreka, about 30 km outside Conakry. The training center was moved to Forecariah in 2006. This photo was taken in February 2004.
- Volunteer Photos
- Outplanting Mango Trees
- Agriculture; Host community
- Volunteer Sarah Knight and community members outplant mango trees in Pakane Toucouleur, Kaolack region, Senegal.
- Volunteer Photos
- Lemonade at the Titanic Club
- Agriculture; Host community friends
- Taking a break on a hot day in Rokupr, Sierra Leone, 1977. I had made my rounds to local farmers and stopped to pick up my mail and visit a friend over lemonade at the Titanic club. How hot was it? No thermometers, we didn't want to know!
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Fishing
- Fishing; Children
- This is one of the families I worked with in the aldea of Atulapa, Esquipulas, Guatemala. Happy children each with a fish! The picture was taken c. 1987.
- Volunteer Photos
- Inland fisheries
- Fishing; Work
- This photo shows J. Carl, Inland fisheries Volunteer in Liberia, working on a water control feature, part of the main channel for the Duo Town Fisheries Complex. The other fellow (in the trench) is Stanley, a farmer and master carpenter. Carl...
- Volunteer Photos
- Katuyola Ponds
- Terrain; Fishing
- This picture of two of my farmers' fish ponds in the village of Katuyola, Zambia. This photo was taken on the morning of our first fish harvest in 2002. It was a bit chilly and a mist was rising off the pond's surface. The pond on the right is...
- Volunteer Photos