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- Research
- Agency Photos
- Local Community
- Ecuador, 1970s.
- Agency Photos
- Ecuador
- Agency Photos
- ECU PC 1014-24- 1983 P56
- Peace Corps Volunteer Betty Heidi works in a 4-H club development and agricultural extension program in Julio Moreno, Ecuador. Held, from Onandaga, Michigan, is a graduate of Michigan State with a degree in special education. Photo by Pfaff.
- Agency Photos
- Department Director of Peace Corps Ecuador
- Bill Benford, center, with Ron Dudley (COR) and the president of the cattlemen’s association in Santo Domingo, Ecuador. Benford was the department director of Peace Corps Ecuador until late 1968 and later became country directoy of Peace Corps...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Nursing Children
- This Volunteer works as Nursing Supervisor and nursing instructor in a 200 bed Regional Hospital in Cartago Valle, Colombia.
- Agency Photos
- Poor Homes on the Shore of the Pacific Ocean
- I took this photo on the Pacific shore of Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia in 1966. These are stilt homes of poor African-Colombians in the town. They have no toilets and other common domestic utilities/conveniences.
- Staff Photos
- Puppy Promotion
- Animals; HIV-AIDS
- This photo was taken at a Peace Corps organized HIV/AIDS educational event in Olmos, Lambayeque in the North of Peru in November, 2011. My puppy became the mascot by wearing a red ribbon and being sweet with kids and people watching the event.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Making of an HIV/AIDS Poster with Fransisco
- Children; HIV-AIDS; Art
- This photograph was taken of me while painting the hand of a student/neighbor to make an HIV/AIDS poster. The poster was used in the central clinic, elementary school, and high school while I promoted HIV/AID awareness and precautions. The final...
- 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
- The Peace Corps in Chile
- A series of posters comprised of photos and text about the Peace Corps's impact in Chile.
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Peace Corps in Africa
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Farm Production
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer (left) is shown talking with a farmer. Jim teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
- Agency Photos
- Farm Production
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is shown in front of his house at Chel Ouiedo, Paraguay. He teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
- Agency Photos
- Agricultural Extensionist
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is an agricultural extensionist assigned to a rural area in Asuncion. Here he stops work to have lunch with some of the women in the village.
- Agency Photos
- Weed Control Research Project
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer works in a weed control research project at the Ministry of Agriculture in Paraguay. Here, she is shown in the entomology laboratory examining live beetles that cause much of the damage to the crops.
- Agency Photos
- Weed Control Research Project
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer works in a weed control research project at the Ministry of Agriculture in Paraguay. Here, she (striped shirt) examines insects that cause damage to the crops.
- Agency Photos
- Soil Analysis
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer does research at a soil analysis lab at the Institute of Agronomico National at Caacupe. He also does routine analysis of soil samples. Here, he observes the growth response of cotton to fertilization.
- Agency Photos
- Agricultural Extensionist
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is an agricultural extensionist assigned to a rural area in Asuncion. Here he stops work to have lunch with some of the women in the village.
- Agency Photos
- Production Training
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is shown at entrance to the tobacco warehouse (dark jacket) with tobacco growers and neighbors.He teaches better production methods in tobacco and cotton in Paraguay.
- Agency Photos