RoundsImaging Services - Bob Wachman

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:52 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1969 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Cattle feeding on hay. Tharus huddled around a fire near a house in Khoksi village on an early morning in winter. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, animal, home life, house exterior

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:47 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-11 Location: Dulari, Morang Man playing cymbals and singing as part of Tihar (Diwali) holiday event in Khoksi village. On left is a male dancer dressed as a female in red. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Diwali, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, Tihar, event, holiday, musician, portrait

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:41 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1969 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Tharu farmer (left) with Tharu workers on the bullock cart road heading east from the village of Khoksi. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, footpath, transportation

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:36 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: A bundle of jute sticks (woody stalk remaining after soaking and extraction of inner fiber) drying in a logged clearing along a footpath, across from the only permanent teashop in Ward 8, Khoksi. (A temporary Tharu tea shop was set up each winter for a month or two.) The dried sticks were used to make very flimsy fences. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, batti, commerce, countryside, drying, landscape, tea shop

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:29 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-03 Location: Morang Description: View from a jeep en route from Itahari, Sunsari, to Dulari Gao, Morang; probably the unpaved East-West Highway. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, car, community, road, transportation

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:25 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dhankuta, Dhankuta Description: Ritual slaughtering of pig for holiday celebration. The process took a long time. The ground was cleaned and a special design on the spot designated for the slaughter. The animal was later cooked and served to all in attendance. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, butchering, event, festival

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:19 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Men using a wooden ramp to load heavy logs (tree trunks) onto a truck for transport to a mill, Ward 8 (Khoksi). Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, transportation, truck, wood cutting

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:14 +0000

Caption: Date: 1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Shepherds with cows at a clearing beside the road through Dulari along the (Khosi) river. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, shepherding, tending animals

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:09 +0000

Caption: Date: 1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: View from inside a teashop, Ward 1. Female teashop owner is making tea. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, batti, commerce, tea shop

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:03:02 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Three Tharu farmers using a team of two bullocks to try a then modern “bikas” metal plow in the winter in Ward 8 (Khoksi). Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, home life, plowing, tilling, tools

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:56 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Tharu farmers plowing a field of rice stubble in winter in preparation for planting wheat in Ward 8 (Khoksi). Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, plowing, tilling

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:49 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Young wheat fields in foreground, forest and hills in the distance. Ward 8 (Khoksi), winter. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, countryside, field, landscape

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:44 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Tharu farmer dusting wheat crop with pesticide benzene hexachloride (BHC), Ward 8 (Khoksi), winter. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, agriculture, field

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:38 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967-1968 Location: Dulari, Morang Description: Abir Lal Chaudhary (Ward 8 committee member) and Bob Wachman (U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer) check a field of mature Lerma Rojo, “improved” winter wheat developed in Mexico. Ward 8 (Khoksi). Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, PC volunteer, Peace Corp Photo History, People, agriculture, field, named person, research location

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:32 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dhankuta Description: Young male student on the trail home from Dharan, Sunsari, to Dhankuta, Dhankuta. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, People, child, footpath, transportation

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:24 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dharan, Sunsari Description: Villagers boarding rail cars filled with rocks on the Kosi Project railroad train near the British Gurkha Recruiting Cantonment outside Dharan. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, railroad, transportation

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:18 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dharan, Sunsari Description: A few villagers standing on a rail car filled with rocks on the Kosi Project railroad train near the British Gurkha Recruiting Cantonment outside Dharan. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, railroad, transportation

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Thu, 23 May 2019 17:02:11 +0000

Caption: Date: 1967 Location: Dharan, Sunsari Description: Railroad tracks of the Kosi Project railroad near the British Gurkha Recruiting Cantonment outside Dharan. Keywords: Bob Wachman, Nepal Photo History Project, Peace Corp Photo History, railroad, transportation