Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description: Photo with flowers on the desk at memorial service held at the Panchayat Development Center the day after news arrived of the assassination of US President John Kennedy.
Date: 1963-11-23 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description: Part of the memorial service held at the Panchayat Development Center the day after news arrived of the assassination of US President John Kennedy.
Date: 1963-11-23 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description: Peace Corps volunteers at the memorial service held at the Panchayat Development Center the day after news arrived of the assassination of US President John Kennedy.
Date: 1963-11-23 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description: Panchayat Development Center staff at the memorial service held the day after news arrived of the assassination of US President John Kennedy.
Date: 1963-11-23 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description: Memorial service held the day after assassination of US President John Kennedy. Staff at the Rampur Panchayat Training Center organized the memorial for the Peace Corps Volunteers stationed there. In this photo, left to right: John Anderson, Steve Holloway, Mike Farmer, Will Newman, and Joe Wood. Photo of President Kennedy on wooden pole topped with an American flag.
Date: 1963-11-23 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description: Peace Corps volunteer Gregg Smith at the memorial service held at the Panchayat Development Center the day after news arrived of the assassination of US President John Kennedy.
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1963 Location: Rampur, Chitwan Description:
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The landlord of Peace Corps volunteers Norm Bramble and Gregg Smith. He and his family lived in half the building and the volunteers lived in the other half.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Bachilya Maya on the right visiting a friend as she cleaned cooking pots.
Families, Family, People, home life, house interior, kitchen, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Bachilya Maya and her daughter Devi Maya in the kitchen
People, home life, house interior, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Bachilya Maya,using a broom to clean Peace Corps volunteer Gregg Smith’s room. Bed and mosquito netting in the background.
People, home life, house interior, meals, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Bachilya Maya serving dinner she had cooked for Peace Corps Volunteer Gregg Smith.
PC volunteer, People, bathing place, community, home life, house exterior, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Gregg Smith taking a “shower” out of a three-gallon water bucket on the back porch of his house in Terhathum.
community, helicopter, parade ground, playground, transportation, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: U.S. government helicopter landed on the tundikhel.
Families, Family, People, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The family that rented half their house to Peace Corps volunteers Gregg Smith and Norm Bramble.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A man beginning to carve a drum from a log.
People, child, home life, named person, play time
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Devi Maya, daughter of Bachilya Maya playing with her friends.
People, community, named person, post office
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The postmaster at Terhathum. There was no heat in the buildings and it was quite cold during the winter months.
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: People selling things at the weekly market (haat) on the tundikhel (public open space).
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A local police officer.
People, commerce, named person, shop
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The compounder in his shop. He was the local chemist or pharmacist.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Three Limbu boys.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A Limbu family. The matriarch is the woman with the shawl over her head.
People, community, government building, soldier
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A soldier at the Terhathum army base. He was a friendly guy who was interested in the radio of the Peace Corps volunteers.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Two itinerate sarkis (cobblers) on the main street in Terhathum. They would start with a piece of tanned water buffalo hide and make complete shoes.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A Limbu wedding party.
Families, Family, People, commerce, haat, market
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A village family at the weekly market.
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Limbu woman.
agriculture, animal, milking
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The granddaughter of a Limbu family tending her cow.
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: People talking near the tundikhel (public open space).
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The weekly market (haat) on the tundikhel (public open space).
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Limbu woman weaving a mat.
handicrafts, sewing/knitting
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The Terhathum darji (tailor).
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: People selling things at the weekly market (haat) on the tundikhel (public open space).
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: People selling things at the weekly market (haat) on the tundikhel (public open space).
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: A gathering on the tundikhel (public open space).
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Water jugs for sale at the weekly market (haat) on the tundikhel (public open space).
commerce, community, haat, market, parade ground, playground, tundikhel
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: People selling things at the weekly market (haat) on the tundikhel (public open space).
PC volunteer, People, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Gregg Smith on the left in national dress with sunglasses and the Panchayat Development Officer (PDO).
People, community, event, government building, meeting, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Tea break at the Panchayat Development Office. The nokar (servant) in the foreground.
PC volunteer, People, group photo, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The entire Terhatum Panchayat Development Office staff. The Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) on the far right, next to him the accountant. Peace Corps Volunteer Gregg Smith in the center.
PC volunteer, People, group photo, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: The entire Terhatum Panchayat Development Office staff. The Panchayat Development Officer (PDO) on the far right, next to him the accountant. Peace Corps Volunteer Gregg Smith on the far left.
People, community, event, government building, meeting, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Tea break at the Panchayat Development Office. From left to right: the offfice nokar (servant), the accountant, the assistant Panchayat Development Officer, the Panchayat Development Officer (PDO).
PC volunteer, People, cooking, home life, kitchen, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer Norm Bramble cooking dinner with Bachilya Maya. Bachilya Maya gathered water from the spring down the hill, split wood for our chulo (stove), lipnued the house’s floor with cow dung and clay, etc. Norm Bramble and Gregg Smith built the chulo. Nepalis came by to look at their project and laugh: "Is that the way you make a chulo in America?!" In 2014 Gregg Smith stated “I do not understand why we didn't hire a Nepali to build us a decent chulo!”
PC volunteer, People, batti, commerce, games, home life, tea shop
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Peace Corps Volunteer and Nepali playing chess at teashop on trail north of Terhathum.
PC volunteer, People, commerce, haat, market, named person
Date: 1964-1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Peace Corps Volunteers Norm Bramble on the left and Scott Skinner buying supplies at the Terhathum market.
Date: 1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Porters gathering belongings of Peace Corps volunteers at Terhathum to carry them to Dharan.
Date: 1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Porters gathering belongings of Peace Corps volunteers at Terhathum to carry them to Dharan.
Date: 1965
Location: Terhathum, Terhathum
Description: Porters leaving Terhathum to walk to Dharan. Each porter carried about 80 lbs.
