MEAP Digital Collection Grows

The Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) celebrates a huge expansion of its holdings with the publication of over 55,000 individual archival objects from 28 collections and 19 countries. These collections preserve and make accessible images, voices, and publications from around the world, including archival material from Chile and Guatemala to Mongolia, India, and Afghanistan.

The growing published collection reflects the impact of MEAP over its first five years as project teams have managed to successfully complete digitization and documentation through a global pandemic as well as countless local challenges.

These digital collections reflect the work of communities around the world who have safeguarded their cultural heritage and the teams, funded by MEAP, who have completed both digitization and documentation for these endangered materials. The UCLA Library is dedicated to preserving these collections and creating access to global knowledge as defined by the communities themselves. Digitizing these materials is a crucial way to preserve and make accessible diverse perspectives from the recent past in order to spark meaningful conversations about the future.

More collections will be published in the months and years ahead. We encourage you to explore what's available and check back in.

Organizational Papers, Personal Records, and Ephemera

• Ephemera from the Barbados Department of Archives (Barbados)
• Labor, Livelihood,and Immigration in a Brazilian Plantation: the Archives of Farm Ibicaba (1890-1970) (Brazil)
• Citizen action for the defense of human rights in Chile: Personal Collections (Chile)
• Digitization of Justice court files under authoritarian regimes in Amazonia (Brazil)
• The Peruvian Peasant Confederation Archive (Confederación Campesina del Perú): Rural and Indigenous Society, National Politics, and International Solidarity (Peru)
• Archives of Minority Pasts: Mapping Religion and Politics in Modern Bengal (India)
• Nnamdi Azikiwe Papers (Nigeria)
• Archive Fundation Q (Poland)
• Digitization of the Diocesan Curia of Nova Iguaçu's Archive (Brazil)
• Digitizing the Justino Valentim Collection of Vaihoho Sung-Poems (Timor-Leste)
• Archival images from the Albanian National Film Archive (Albania)
• Captain Zuzinha's Band: digitization of the manuscripts scores of frevo from the early XX century as a world heritage (Brazil)
• Archives for Justice and Peace: The Project for the Recovery of Historical Memory (REMHI) and the National Reconciliation Commission (CNR) (Guatemala)
• Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA) (Kenya)

Photographs

• The Photographer who woke up from the Dead - Mohlouoa T. Ramakatane (Lesotho)
• Surprise!: Photo Jack Imaging Lebanon's Passers-by, Public and Private Life (Lebanon)
• Preserving and Creating Access to Unique Photo Collection on Afghanistan (Afghanistan)
• Our History is Our Force: Protecting Haitian National Patrimony (Haiti)
• Fragile Film in an unstable country: a negative mission (Lebanon)
• Rare Negatives and Slides at the Center for Art and Archaeology of the American Institute of Indian Studies (India)

Newspapers and Publications

• The McMIllan Memorial Library Newspaper Collection (Kenya)
• Preserving HUMUN BICHIG newspaper through digitization (Mongolia)
• Argentinean human rights organizations online library of periodical and non-periodical publications (Argentina)

Audiovisual Materials

• African Studies Ibadan Audiovisual and Arabic Manuscripts Archives (Nigeria)
• Digitization and Preservation of Audio Recordings of Music and Oral Traditions in the Collections of Rupayan Sansthan (India)
• Digitization and description of the film collection of the news program “El Mundo al Día” (Dominican Republic)
• The Ricardo Montejano Collection (Mexico)