One of the 74 collections selected for the International Memory of UNESCO’s World Records are the iconic airplane photos taken by Mexico’s Civil Engineers Associates Foundation. Inputs come from 72 countries and four international organizations.
The Board of Administration of UNESCO During its 221st session on Thursday, Mexico’s Engineer’s Civil’s Associations (ICA) Foundation announced that it would be a “exceptional global value”.
👏🏿 ¡cheers, #Mexico!!
Foundation’s Airport Photo Series @IcamexicoDelivered by the state of Mexican, which is one of the 74 packages #Unesco Is attached to #MemoriadelmundoIts exceptional global value documentary record … pic.twitter.com/kyxa6etzpm
– UNESCO MEXICO (@UNESCOMEXICO) April 17, 2025
The ICA’s Aerial Photo Archive provides a unique perspective on the evolution of other regions across the city of Mexico and the history of the country, which provides valuable intelligence on urban development and infrastructure.
Catherine Bloch, president of the Mexican Committee of the World Registry, described the collection as completely unique among global archives.
“The (archive) provides a map of how the country has changed, which is important not only to Mexico but to the world,” he said. “This is a unique portrait and very few countries have such a historical record.”
There are 1,165,700 photos taken between 1932 and 1994 in the ICA’s Air Photo Archive, which refers to about 85% of the Mexican territory. The collection also includes the bird-eye photos of El Salvadar, Nicaragua, Honduras, Belis and Guatemala.
The archive is divided into three series.
Researchers used the ICA collection To analyze changes and changes in Mexico Over time.
In 2019, the Dolorus Olmedo Museum celebrated the 70th anniversary of the ICA by healing Mexico City Landscape Exhibition. The ICA’s airborne photographs converted three mosques (Juan O’Corman, Francisco Ebans and Louis Nishisawa) to explain the evolution of Mexico to the centuries old capital city to modern metropolitan.
Established in 1992, the memory of the World Project is aimed at protecting the documentary heritage of humanity – and promoting global access. It is a set of documents, manuscripts, oral traditions, audio visual materials, library and archive reserves.
Today we share photos of the Aerobotographic Fund, which is part of the historical collection of the ICA Foundation, yesterday vary in the International Registry of Memia Del Mundo. @UnescomexicoIt recognizes the documentary tradition of global value #Collector pic.twitter.com/yoebysihal
– ICA Mexico (@icamexico) April 18, 2025
The program, known as the “documentary traditional collections,” has international, regional and national records. With this week’s entries, the global registration is now in total of 570 collections.
Mexico has the most entries in UNESCO’s World Memory Registry in the United States with 115 In all three records, including 18 regional goods and 15 international items. The country’s 44 special entries are in the sixth largest worldwide.
In February, UNESCO has been trapped eight collections The National Registry of Mexico features items on architecture, literature, radio magazine, photo journalism, radio plays, letters and diaries. Two other collections were added to the UNESCO regional registry.
The previous Mexican Collection was added to the International Registry, in 2017, The Manual Alwarez Bravo Archive of Negligence, Release and Documents.
In the International Register Mexican Inputs Fray Bernardino de Sahagon’s WorksA A set of 92 CodexThe The original negative of the image of Louis Pumpulu “The Forget” And Publa’s Balafox Library.
