British Library Endangered Archives Programme

Description
Relevant collections include: EAP571: Digital preservation of newspapers from the first half of the twentieth century in Nicaragua; Rescue of two photographic collections of rapidly changing cultures in rural Guatemala dating from the 1890s through to the 1930s (EAP165); Lekil Kuxlejal: archiving Tenejapa's indigenous heritage (EAP593); From indigenous subjects to indigenous citizens: digitising state-society relations in the State Archive of Oaxaca (EAP568); Preserving and cataloguing the Luis Reyes Garcia' collection of native language audios and copies of Nahua documents (EAP383); Conserving Indigenous Memories of Land Privatisation in Mexico: Michoacán’s Libros de Hijuelas, 1719-1929 (EAP931); Locating and preserving audiovisual collections of expressive Andean culture in Peru (Cusco, Lambayeque and La Libertad) (EAP767); Locating audiovisual ethnographic collections of expressive Andean culture in Peru (EAP022); 'Faces drawn in the sand': a rescue pilot project of native peoples' photographs stored at the Museum of La Plata, Argentina (EAP095); Identification of the potential corpus for a Mapuche special historical collection (EAP030). Other collections are available, archives contain thousands of images and documents, many available to view online, see website for details.
Library Location (country)
England
Library Location (city)
London
Media Type:
Digital
Access based
Some restricted Access
Geographic Region:
Latin America
Global
Subject/Category Tag(s):
Arts
Culture
Law and History
Multimedia