Date: 1966 Location: Bhaktapur, Bhaktapur Description Man threshing wheat on the street.
carpentry, handicrafts, woodworking
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Carpenters at work in their workshop.
Date: 1966 Location: Bhaktapur, Bhaktapur Description: Queen's bathing and washing pool.
community, statue, temple
Date: 1966 Location: Bhaktapur, Bhaktapur Description: Stone sculptures on the steps up to the Siddhi Laxmi temple.
community, home life, laundry, water supply
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Women at well obtaining water and washing clothes.
Date: 1966 Location: Patan, Lalitpur Description: Man putting final finish on copper and brass pots.
agriculture, animal, commerce, shop
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Cow resting outside a pharmacy
agriculture, drying, home life, house exterior
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Hemp drying outside home.
home life, kitchen, meals
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Family cooking and dining area. Mother serving food, assisted by daughter in law. Men and child eat first.
Date: 1968 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Water retention pond.
Date: 1966 Location: Patan, Lalitpur Description: Temple with Buddhist and Hindu deities.
Date: 1968 Location: Kathmandu Description: view of temple outside the city.
community, landscape, river, stream, temple
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Bagmati River. Kalmochan Mahadev temple visible to the right. Laxmeshwor temple in the center.
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Roadside in Kathmandu.
People, child, community, government building
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: School boys pose eagerly in front of Singha Durbar.
bus, community, shrine, street scene, stupa/chorten, transportation
Date: 1966 Location: Patan, Lalitpur Description: Bus passing the Ashoka Stupa at Pulchowk.
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Edge of airport with a person walking across the runway.
agriculture, countryside, drying, landscape
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu Description: Rural scene outside of Kathmandu city, grains drying
home life, house exterior
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu Description: Rural home outside of Kathmandu City
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Prayer flags at the houses in an area where Tamangs lived, slightly outside of Sanischare. The Physical Education Teacher at Sanischare School (PT Sir) lived there.
People, bridge, community, fisherman
Location: Ilam Description: Bridge and fishing weir across the Mai River, a long way below the trail to Taplejung.
Date: 1967 Location: Namsaling, Ilam Description: New bridge across the Mai River which replaced a broken bridge. This woman carrying her full basket stopped before the bridge to offer a puja (many flowers) before crossing. She virtually ran across the rickety bridge, with all of its insecure slats, to reach the other side.
chautara, community, landscape, town, village
Date: 1967 Location: Ilam Description: Small village in southern Ilam on the trail between Sanischare, Jhapa, and Ilam Bazaar. Note the traditional peepul tree surrounded by a chautara.
agriculture, wood cutting
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Men cutting down trees and vines from the jungle for firewood near the riverbed outside Sanichare bazaar.
agriculture, community, outdoor class, planting, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Boys are planting vegetables on the fields of Sanischare School.
flood, landscape, river, stream
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Tributary river adjacent to Sanischare Bazaar beginning to flood during monsoon.
Date: 1968 Location: Jhapa Description: The tributary river that ran slightly outside of Sanischare Bazaar in the dry season.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischarer, Jhapa Description: School children converging on the bazaar during Saturday market. Note the paucity of girls.
Families, Family, People, community, named person, water supply
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Kiran, youngest child of Hari Bilas Ban, and Mr. Ban, by the family well.
People, child, named person, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Kiran, son of patriarch Hari Bilas Ban, in the family compound.
People, countryside, landscape, named person
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Son in law of Hari Bilas Ban stands outside the family compound, as he and his wife (Indira) visit her natal home from their village in Darjeeling, India.
People, countryside, home life, landscape, named person, tools
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Birkhaman Rai, who was from Bhutan, and was hired to assist Peace Corps volunteers Beth Prentice and Bob Frank with cooking and other household duties. He is holding new tools bought in the market.
People, home life, house exterior, named person
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: The main house in the family compound of Hari Bilas Ban. This home was likely the biggest home in the area. The rear building contains the kitchen on the ground floor and the oldest wife and her son's dwelling on the upper floor. The youngest wife (5th wife - the middle three had died) lived with Mr. Ban and children in the main house.
agriculture, animal, countryside, landscape
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Chicken coop at a small banana farm at the edge of the jungle outside of Sanischare Bazaar.
People, agriculture, named person, plowing, tilling
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Farmland owned by Hari Bilas Ban across the path (north) from his family compound. A bull is pulling the plough as the land is prepared for planting mustard.
People, named person, portrait
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A household servant in the home of Hari Bilas Ban.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanichare, Jhapa Description: A village man
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People, child, named person, portrait
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Manju, a spirited six year old daughter of Hari Bilas Ban, in the family compound.
People, child, named person, portrait
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A boy playing in the compound of Hari Bilas Ban.
People, child, named person
Date: 1967 Location; Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Kiran, youngest child of Hari Bilas Ban, playing with another baby in the family compound.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Headmaster Sir, Mr. Dhakal, walking into the bazaar.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Limbu or Rai women walking toward the bazaar.
Date: 1966 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Adorable, chubby baby.
People, cooking, home life, named person
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description; Family compound of Dhakal, headmaster of Sanischare School.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Men going in to a large village wedding (men and women went in separately and stayed segregated during the ceremonies).
elephant, event, transportation, wedding
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa DescriptionL: Bride and family members leaving the village of Sanischare on an elephant.
People, child, group photo, named person
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Children living at the family compound of Hari Bilas Ban.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Family in Sanischare Bazaar.
People, community, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Man learning to read at night school started by Peace Corps volunteer Beth Prentice in the Sanischare School.
flood, landscape, river, stream
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Tributary river near Sanischare Bazaar flooding during monsoon.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanichare, Jhapa Description: Rain water standing many days after the monsoon rains were over.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Two school mates on the way to school.
People, named person, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Mayor (Pradhan Pancha) standing with a neighbor.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Two village men.
Families, Family, People, event, named person, picnic
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Dry season picnic with Hari Bilas Ban and family.
agriculture, drying, landscape, town, village
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Grains drying on village roofs.
elephant, event, parade, procession, transportation, wedding
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Wedding procession. Musicians, elephant and family.
Date: 1967 Location; Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Villagers on way to wedding ceremonies.
Families, Family, People, bazaar, commerce, community, street scene
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Family living in the middle of the bazaar.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Woman posing for photo.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Three serious men in the bazaar.
People, named person, portrait
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Thuli Ama, first wife of Hari Bilas Ban.
Families, Family, People, event, puja, religious service
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Puja at the family compound of Hari Bilas Ban (in yellow vest at left). School teachers in right of photo.
agriculture, countryside, field, landscape
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Mustard field in blossom, with mango tree's fruit beginning to appear.
community, countryside, landscape, road
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Tibetan refugees walking toward village.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Two adorable babies getting some sun.
People, child, named person
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Sanima, the youngest wife of Hari Bilas Ban, in foreground with Kiran, her son. Two household staff are also in the photo.
Families, Family, People, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Decription: Lovely mother and her beautiful baby boy.
People, community, priest/monk/lama/nun, road
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Red-clothed anti-smallpox shaman making his way through the village, as smallpox decimates the population.
People, barber, handicrafts, named person
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Barber cuts the hair of Birkhaman Rai.
Date: 1966 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School children line up by class before school starts.
agriculture, drying, home life, house exterior
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Home at edge of village, with grain harvest beginning to dry.
agriculture, countryside, field, landscape
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: View to the north with only one snow-covered mountain visible. Path leading east out of the village.
Families, Family, People, home life, house exterior, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Village family at their home.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Market day in the bazaar (Sanischare Bazaar held a "haat bazaar" every Saturday. Regional purveyors would walk to the village with their fruits, vegetables, grains, livestock and other items to sell.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Indira, oldest daughter of Hari Bilas Ban, visiting her home village from the Darjeeling region of India.
Families, Family, People, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Village family, with a pet dog (a very rare situation then) outside of their home and their adjacent banana farm.
People, named person, portrait
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: In the household of Hari Bilas Ban.
Families, Family, People, community, named person, water supply
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Hari Bilas Ban and Kiran, his youngest son, by the family's well.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: In the family compound of Hari Bilas Ban.
commerce, cooking, haat, home life, landscape, market, river, stream
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Cooking a meal during weekly market day.
Date: 1968 Location; Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Village elder.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Friends from school.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Small river in the Terai.
Date; 1968 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Tibetan refugees near Bouddhnath preparing backing for weaving a rug.
community, countryside, landscape, road
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Decription: Walking west along the path into Sanischare.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Mayor (Pradhan Pancha) standing proud.
Families, Family, People, bazaar, commerce, community, street scene
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Village family in the center of the bazaar.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Village man
Families, Family, People, home life, house exterior
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Father and son standing in front of their home.
Families, Family, People, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: village family.
commerce, haat, horse, market, transportation
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Early Saturday morning as farmers arrive to sell their goods at the weekly haat bazaar.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Man getting a shave from a barber.
People, bicycle, home life, house exterior, named person, transportation
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Standing in front of Headmaster Dhakal's home.
People, agriculture, community, named person, road, shepherding, tending animals
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Indira (daughter of Hari Bilas Ban) and her husband buying lemons as a goat herder and his goats stir up dust on the path.
People, named person, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Sanima, youngest wife of Hari Bilas Ban, shows off her new sari.
Families, Family, People, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: located , A man and his young wife and child at a location a bit into the jungle outside the village of Sanischare.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Baby on blanket
Families, Family, People, countryside, landscape
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Father, son and daughter.
People, compounder, doctor, health worker
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Village man getting a smallpox vaccination before the spring epidemic arrives.
agriculture, countryside, field, landscape
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Jungle homestead just beyond the field outside of the village.
agriculture, countryside, field, landscape
Date: 1968 Location: Sanichare, Jhapa Description: Mustard field in bloom.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Mahoot brings his elephant into the village in preparation for the upcoming monsoon season.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: An elephant is brought into town to prepare for the workload of providing transportation during the monsoon.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: An elephant is moved into place in preparation for the monsoon workload.
home life, house exterior
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A new house has been built outside the village.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Highschool students line up outside of the Sanischare School.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: The river bed has completely dried up prior to the monsoon rains.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: People hanging out in the middle of the village.
agriculture, community, outdoor class, planting, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School students prepare garden plot for planting.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Women walking into the Saturday market.
Date: 1968 Location; Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Itinerant musicians coming into the village.
Families, Family, People, named person, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Household of Hari Bilas Ban
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Houses and fields at the edge of the village.
community, pack animal, road, transportation
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Tibetan man and his loaded mule walk into the village.
People, child, named person
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Manju, daughter of Hari Bilas Ban, playing with a friend.
agriculture, animal, bullock cart, ox cart, transportation
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Tired bullock rests his head on the cart ahead of him.
event, parade, procession, wedding
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Wedding party leaving village.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Boys competing in a race during school games.
event, puja, religious service
Date: 1968 Location; Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School teachers at puja.
community, event, picnic, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Annual school picnic adjacent to dry river bed.
Date: 1966 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Sanischare School teacher riding his bike in town.
Families, Family, PC volunteer, People, group photo, named person
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Household of Hari Bilas Ban and Peace Corps volunteer Beth Prentice.
PC volunteer, People, named person, portrait
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Mayor (Pradhan Pancha) and Peace Corps volunteer Bob Frank.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Girls competing in race during school games.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1967 Location; Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Boys competing to come in first in a school race.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanichare, Jhapa Description: High school boys competing in the pole vault.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School boys competing.
People, community, games, home life, named person, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: High school boy clears bar in the pole vault while Headmaster Dhakal holds the bar.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Boys competing in race during school games.
People, community, event, named person, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: District Commissioner visits school mela (fair).
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School boys compete in three legged race.
community, outdoor class, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School children getting new writing pads, lined up by grade.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: High school students line up by grade for school. Note the absence of any girls in the higher grades.
Date: 1966 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School children starting to line up by grade in front of the school at the start of the school day.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: More competition at the school game day.
community, games, home life, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School girl successfully balancing an egg on a spoon as she moves toward the finish line during a day of school games.
community, event, picnic, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School picnic at side of dry river bed before the monsoon season.
PC volunteer, People, community, cooking, event, home life, named person, picnic, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Guruama and Beth Prentice, Peace Corps volunteer teacher, preparing to continue with food service at the annual school picnic.
People, community, event, named person, picnic, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Guruama preparing to continue with food service at the annual school picnic.
People, commerce, haat, market, named person
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Man in white is the husband of Indira, daughter of Hari Bilas Ban (in rear). Walking through the area of the Saturday market where some farmers are selling their farm animals.
agriculture, community, outdoor class, planting, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School boys planting in the school garden.
agriculture, community, outdoor class, planting, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School boys preparing soil for planting in the school garden.
agriculture, community, outdoor class, planting, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School boys hoeing their plot in the school garden.
agriculture, community, outdoor class, planting, school
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: School boys hoeing their plot in the school garden.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Villagers stop for a photo.
agriculture, wood cutting
Date: 1966 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Lumberyard with wood for fuel.
Families, Family, People, group photo, named person
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Family of Hari Bilas Bon with Peace Corps volunteer Beth Prentice.
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A traveling barber cuts hair by the side of the road near Sanischare bazaar.
Families, Family, People, portrait
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A family that was living outside of Saniscare bazaar. Wife holding her child is very young.
Families, Family, People, home life, house exterior
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A family at their home's yard. Chicken house on the right.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Tibetans walking along the road outisde Sanischare bazaar.
commerce, community, haat, market, street scene
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Crowds at haat bazaar day in the town.
agriculture, countryside, landscape, plowing, tilling
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: View looking north with man plowing his field.
home life, house exterior
Date: 1966-1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: A home on stilts.
Date: 1967 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Elephant on the road during monsoon season.
bazaar, commerce, elephant, transportation
Date: 1966-1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Shops along the road at Sanischare bazaar. Elephant transportation.
People, cooking, event, home life, named person, picnic
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Sanischare School picnic. Headmaster Dhakal and the Tamang who was the physical Education teacher and was known as "PT Sir."
PC volunteer, People, community, named person, street scene
Date: 1966-1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Peace Corps volunteer teacher Beth Frank walking to the Sanischare School with children.
event, home life, meals, picnic
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Teachers and staff at the Sanischare School picnic.
PC volunteer, People, community, named person, school
Date: 1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Beth Prentice with other woman teacher (guru ama) at a carom board at the school.
PC volunteer, People, named person
Date: 1966-1968 Location: Sanischare, Jhapa Description: Students with Peace Corps volunteers Beth Prentice and Bob Frank.
