Fonds consists of photographic slides created by political scientist David Wurfel (1929-2012) during the course of his travels and scholarly research in South East Asia from 1947 to the mid-2000s. Selected for digitization by Wendy Alejandra Medina de Loera, research assistant hired by York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) as part of the AIF-funded project "Digital Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS) for Teaching & Learning" in 2017-2018.Digitized material represents less than 5% of the total archives.