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February 25, 2016
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Next week the Peace Corps turns 55. Today’s Throwback Thursday is an excerpt from an article in the Sunday Bulletin Magazine from 1962 tracing AFSC’s influence on the creation of the Peace Corps. (If you’re interested in the full article a PDF is...

Next week the Peace Corps turns 55. Today’s Throwback Thursday is an excerpt from an article in the Sunday Bulletin Magazine from 1962 tracing AFSC’s influence on the creation of the Peace Corps. (If you’re interested in the full article a PDF is available here: bit.ly/VISAprogram).

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November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving Throwback Thursday! Excerpt from a Thanksgiving feature on AFSC in 1946 issue of Seventeen magazine. (Full feature available here: http://afsc.org/document/afsc-1946-feature-seventeen-magazine)

Thanksgiving Throwback Thursday! Excerpt from a Thanksgiving feature on AFSC in 1946 issue of Seventeen magazine. (Full feature available here: http://afsc.org/document/afsc-1946-feature-seventeen-magazine)

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August 02, 2013
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June 20, 2013
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Throwback Thursday Agricultural program in Alergia.

Throwback Thursday 

Agricultural program in Alergia.

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May 30, 2013
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Throwback Thursday! A photo from our vaults: AFSC’s Charles Read and John Pixton present a manifest for a shipment of supplies for Algerian refugees in Morocco, 1961.

Throwback Thursday! A photo from our vaults: AFSC’s Charles Read and John Pixton present a manifest for a shipment of supplies for Algerian refugees in Morocco, 1961.

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