Keywords: Photograph of Native Worker in French West Africa Operating Machinery - NARA - 541634.tif Scope and content Original caption Africa French West Africa Native workers who have been brought to the Niger region from over-crowded areas have been taught to drive the new machinery Such equipment is shipped from the United States to Dakar transported by rail to Bamako then floated down the Niger on barges General notes 541634 Local identifier 286-ME-1-3 U S International Development Cooperation Agency Agency for International Development 10/01/1979 - ca 1998 Most Recent <br /> Department of State International Cooperation Administration 06/30/1955 - 11/1961 Predecessor <br /> Foreign Operations Administration 08/01/1953 - 06/30/1955 Predecessor <br /> Economic Cooperation Administration 1948 - 12/30/1951 Predecessor <br /> Mutual Security Agency 1951 - 08/01/1953 Predecessor NARA-Author Rodger George Photographer 2236828 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 circa 1955 1955 Record group Record Group 286 Records of the Agency for International Development 1948 - 2003 Record group ARC 608 Photographs of Marshall Plan Activities in Europe and Africa compiled ca 1948 - ca 1989 documenting the period 1945 - ca 1954 Series ARC 541631 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-286-ME-1 3 yes Other versions NARA-cooperation PD-USGov George Rodger History of Niger |