Peace Corps Volunteer Working on a New Pipeline in South America
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Object Details
- Subject
- Smithsonian Institution-Peace Corps Environmental Program (SI-PCEP)
- Peace Corps (U.S.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- Featured in "Volunteers in Action: Peace Corps VISTA" Handbook. For other images from this handbook, see SIA2011-1151, SIA2011-1152, SIA2011-1154, SIA2011-1155.
- Summary
- A Peace Corps volunteer discusses a new pipeline with a local man. The pipeline will provide drainage for an agricultural project in South America. In 1970 the Smithsonian contracted with the Peace Corps to assist in establishing an international environmental program, the Smithsonian Institution-Peace Corps Environmental Program (SI-PCEP) to develop conservation, biological, and ecological projects in natural resource fields. Recruits were placed through the Office of Environmental Sciences. President John F. Kennedy had set up the Young American Peace Corps in 1961.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 264, Box 26, Folder: ACTION - Peace Corps Handbooks and Manuals
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1973
- Standard number
- SIA2011-1153
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Group, candid
- Document
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 4.5w x 4h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Document
- Place
- South America
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Pipelines
- South America--Field work
- Voluntarism
- Agriculture
- Farmers
- Irrigation
- Record ID
- siris_sic_12918
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Usage conditions apply
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