community, street scene, transportation, truck
Date: 1972-1973 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Building on New Road, Kathmandu. Near Durbar Square. The truck may be unloading coal.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Shopkeeper in his flour shop in central Kathmandu.
commerce, haat, market, rickshaw, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Selling potatoes in bazaar in central Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Repair shop for kerosene lanterns and stoves in central Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Man getting a shave at a barber shop in central Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Grains bazaar in central Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Gentleman who was often seen walking in the center of Kathmandu. Very dignified, very friendly. Always dressed the same, with the same rings.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Peanuts vendor in the bazaar near the center of Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Bazaar near center of Kathmandu. Toys for sale in the center of the photo. Potatoes to the right of center. Letterboxes of the post office on the right.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Eden Hashish Centre, at Inn Eden Hotel near the center of Kathmandu. "Your old and favourite joint," caption on the vertical sign.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Eden Hashish Centre, at Inn Eden Hotel near the center of Kathmandu.
bicycle, commerce, shop, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Repairing and maintaining bicycles near center of Kathmandu. Bicycles were for sale or rent. Bicycles appear to be of Indian, not Chinese, manufacture.
bicycle, commerce, shop, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Repairing and maintaining bicycles near center of Kathmandu. Bicycles were for sale or rent. Bicycles appear to be of Indian, not Chinese, manufacture.
People, portrait, rickshaw, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Rickshaw driver.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Shopkeeper resting in Kathmandu bazaar. Probably selling cooking oil.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Bazaar stand in central Kathmandu. Selling apples, potatoes, bananas, and more.
People, child, community, portrait, rickshaw, street scene, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Boy with rickshaw in central Kathmandu.
People, agriculture, animal, sadhu
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Disabled sadhu with monkey on the streets of Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Merchant weighing vegetables for sale to customer.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Typical rickshaw near center of Kathmandu.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Shops in central Kathmandu. Center shop may be selling rice. Incense being sold to the right of center.
commerce, community, rickshaw, street scene, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Rickshaws amd drivers in central Kathmandu. One of the bread vendors in the back, right is New Chandra Pauroti. Bread was sold in the bazaar in these tricycle carts.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Girls visiting the apartment of Peace Corp volunteers in Chhetrapati.
People, bridge, community, named person
Date: 1971-11 Location: Kavrepalanchok Description: On the road to Tatopani from the Dhulikel training center for Peace Corps Volunteers. The man in the photo was a language trainer for the Peace Corps.
Date: 1971-11 Location: Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok Description: Girl with red glass bracelets, gold earrings, tika, black eye liner.
Date: 1971-11 Location: Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok Description: Girl with red glass bracelets, gold earings, tika, black eye liner and her younger sister.
People, child, countryside, landscape
Date: 1971-11 Location: Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok Description: Boy and girl sitting on a rock and enjoying the view of the Himalaya mountains from Dhulikhel.
Date: 1971-11 Location: Dhulikhel, Kavrepalanchok Description: Fields of mustard growing in Dhulikhel.
community, footpath, home life, house exterior, landscape, named mountain
Date: 1971-12 Location: Puranchaur, Kaski Description: Stone houses on footpath next to the Seti River. Machhapuchchhre mountain in background.
agriculture, field, landscape, named mountain, river, stream
Date: 1971-12 Location: Puranchaur, Kaski Description: Fields above the Seti River. Photo taken from the upper part of Puranchaur village. Machhapuchchhre in the background.
community, footpath, landscape, named mountain
Date: 1971-12 Location: Puranchaur, Kaski Description: Woman walking along village footpath with view of Machhapuchchhre.
child care, home life, landscape, named mountain
Date: 1971-12 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Tibetan woman putting sock on young boy in a field near Pokhara. Machhapuchchhre in the background
home life, house exterior, landscape, named mountain
Date: 1971-12 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Stone house outside of Pokhara with view of Machhapuchchhre in the background.
aerial view, community, countryside, landscape, mani wall, shrine, stupa/chorten
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: View of Kathmandu Valley and the Himalaya mountains. Boudhha stupa is right of center. Probably taken from an airplane.
aerial view, community, countryside, government building, landscape, mani wall, shrine, stupa/chorten
Date: 1972-10 Location: Patan, Lalitpur Description: Aerial view looking toward Patan. Pulchowk Road crosses the center of the photo. Harihar Bhawan and the recently constructed homes for government ministers at lower right. Ashoka stupa in Pulchowk is visible at the intersection. Patan Dhoka Road is at lower left.
aerial view, agriculture, bridge, community, field, landscape, river, stream
Date: 1972-10
Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu
Description: View of bridge in Kathmandu Valley taken from the air.
community, government building
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Singha Durbar. This was taken eight months before the big fire.
community, government building
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Singha Durbar. This was taken eight months before the big fire.
community, event, festival, parade, procession, street scene
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Newar festival in downtown Kathmandu. A coming of age festival that involves shaving the heads of the boys.
People, child, event, festival
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Newar festival in downtown Kathmandu. A coming of age festival that involves shaving the heads of the boys.
People, event, festival, musician
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Musicians at a Newar festival in downtown Kathmandu. A coming of age festival that involves shaving the heads of the boys.
community, event, festival, street scene, temple
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Crowd at major festival in Durbar Square in the center of Kathmandu. Likely the event was the celebration of the Living Goddess Kumari.
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Observers watching from their carved wooden windows at major festival in Durbar Square in the center of Kathmandu. Likely the event was the celebration of the Living Goddess.
Families, Family, People, event, festival
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Observers watching from their carved wooden window at major festival in Durbar Square in the center of Kathmandu. Likely the event was the celebration of the Living Goddess.
People, child, event, festival
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Newar festival in downtown Kathmandu. A coming of age festival that involves shaving the heads of the boys.
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Ganesh statue probably near base of Swayambu hill covered with tika colors.
community, countryside, landscape, mani wall, shrine, stupa/chorten
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: View of Swayambu hill from Chhetrapati near sunset.
home life, house exterior
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Traditional courtyard in central Kathmandu city.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Bazaar near central Kathmandu. Probably along Siddhidas Marg.
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Street scene in central Kathmandu. Probably Siddhidas Marg.
community, rickshaw, temple, transportation
Date: 1973-06 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: Rickshaws at Ason Tol.
community, mani wall, shrine, stupa/chorten, temple
Date: 1972-10 Location: Kathmandu, Kathmandu Description: View of Swayambunath stupa and temples from Chhetrapati.
Date: 1971-12 Location: Puranchaur, Kaski Description: Bridge across the Seti river constructed from bamboo. The location is not far from Puranchaur. Every year the bridge would wash away during the monsoon. The villagers would re-build it when the rains stopped.
child care, community, home life, water supply
Date: 1972-04 Location: Pumdibhumdi, Kaski Description: This was an early experiment with the use of High Density Polyethylene pipe for village drinking water systems. The project was not completed when the photo was taken. It is not known who funded or supported this project.
Women using water leaking from the pipe to bathe their children.
child care, community, home life, water supply
Date: 1972-04 Location: Pumdibhumdi, Kaski Description: Women bathing children at a chautara where water is brought by a high density polyethelene water project. This was an early experiment with the use of High Density Polyethylene pipe for village drinking water systems. The project was not completed when the photo was taken. It is not known who funded or supported this project.
footpath, home life, house exterior, landscape, named mountain, transportation
Date: 1972-04 Location: Kaski Description: Footpath and village house near the Seti Gandaki river with Machhapuchchhre in background.
Date: 1972-04 Location: Puranchaur. Kaski Description: Woman filling her gagro with water from the new water tap. In 1971 the Peace Corps launched a drinking water project with the Ministry of Economic Development, UNICEF and WHO. The Nepal 27 group was the first group of Volunteers to work with villages. The Volunteers coordinated the program and trained the villagers on construction methods. The villagers did all the work. UNICEF paid for the pipe, His Majesty's Government paid for cement and stone workers.
This was the second tap constructed in the village of Puranchaur. It was opened in about January 1972. The village leader was Dili Ram.
Date: 1971-10 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: This truck brought steel and plastic PVC pipe from Kathmandu to Pokhara for the Nepal 27 Peace Corps project in the Kaski region. Villagers then carried the pipe to their villages for installation.
