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Collection
USPCPC
Photographs, 1961-1968 and undated. Black-and-white images of United States Peace Corps administrators and staff, both at headquarters and in the field, as well as images of volunteers working at their duty stations abroad. Photographers include Rowland Scherman, Paul Conklin and Abbie Rowe.
Collection
RPCV
Manuscripts, documents, printed materials, oral history interviews, 1961-2020. Donations by private individuals documenting personal experiences while serving in the Peace Corps. Includes correspondence, diaries, journals, publications, sketches, memoirs, books, maps, poems, project descriptions, audiovisual materials (including oral history recordings), and songs.
Collection
RSSPP
Papers 1948-1976. Brother-in-law of President Kennedy, lawyer, businessman, government official, diplomat. Assistant general manager, Merchandise Mart (1948-1961); Director, Peace Corps (1961-1966); Director, Office of Economic Opportunity (1964-1968); Special Assistant to the President (1965-1968); Ambassador to France (1968-1970); Vice Presidential candidate (1972); Presidential candidate (1976). Personal and professional papers relating to Shriver’s work as the first director of the Peace Corps, as the first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and as United States Ambassador to France. The collection also covers Shriver’s role in John F. Kennedy’s 1960 Presidential campaign, his 1970 bid for governor of Maryland, his 1972 campaign for the Vice Presidency, and his 1976 campaign for the Presidency.
Collection
KJPP
Papers 1963-1974. Peace Corps volunteer, Dominican Republic (1963-1965); Peace Corps staff, Washington, D.C. (1965-1967); campaign aide in Robert F. Kennedy's (1968) and George McGovern's presidential campaigns (1972); co-author, With Fidel: A Portrait of Castro and Cuba (1975). Papers relating to the Peace Corps, presidential campaigns, and a series of interviews about Cuba with Fidel Castro.
Collection
WHJPP
Papers 1961-1966. Lawyer. General Counsel, Peace Corps (1961-1966). Microfilm copy of unclassified chronological correspondence files.
Collection
USPC
Records 1961-1992. Microfilm copies of Director's staff meeting reports, press releases, weekly reports to the President, volunteer information reports, and publications. Hard copy consists of publications, reports, country studies, training manuals etc.
Collection
LSPP
Papers 1962-1968. Wife of Peace Corps country program director John Guy Smith, member of first Micronesia Peace Corps Programming Team (1966). Correspondence, reports, retrospectives, diaries, and a manuscript related to Peace Corps life in the 1960s.
Collection
WHBPP
Papers, 1961-2008. Personal papers of William Henry Byrd focusing on his tenure as director of the Peace Corps outdoor fitness training programs in Puerto Rico from 1962 to 1963. Contains textual materials, photographic prints, negatives, and slides.