History

Photographs taken by American photographer William Henry Jackson (1843-1942) on his two-year trip abroad. Most of the photographs were taken in South Asia.

Historical maps, collections of photographs, and statistics relating to the Indian subcontinent.

Newsreel footage, World War II-era film clips, 19th- and early 20th-century photographs, audio files, and slide shows on the Raj.

Over 40,000 black-and-white photographs of Buddhist art and architecture. Subjects of images range in date from 2,500 B.C.E. to the present and include material in their original contexts as well as art in museums.

Fifteen thousand photographs, 35,000 letters written to and by Gandhi, and 140 hours of audio clips.

One hundred and three images of excavations from Mohenjo Daro, or “Mound of the Dead,” in Indus Valley.

Images depicting coins and seals from the Indian subcontinent.

The University of California, Irvine Libraries established the Southeast Asian Archive in 1987 in response to the community’s interest in having this history documented, preserved, and made accessible. The Archive's collection is broad and interdisciplinary in documenting the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic life of members of the Cambodian, Hmong, Laotian, and Vietnamese diaspora.