Photo Archives

The Photo Archives hold around 100,000 pictures. The majority are black-and-white prints and negatives, and colour slides. There are also postcards and images using other print technologies. A collection of albums is also an integral part of the Archives.
 
Anneliese Scherz taking a photograph of herself. Presumably Windhoek, before 1979. B/w, negative, medium format, S21_0144
Anneliese Scherz taking a photograph of herself. Presumably Windhoek, before 1979. B/w, negative, medium format, S21_0144

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Namibia and South Africa form the focus of the collection. Nearly every picture genre is represented: landscapes, portraits, views of settlements, flora, fauna, etc.
 
The pictures cover the period from the 1880s to today, with a concentration in the 1940s–1960s, the 1980s and the 1990s.
 
The photographers include: Ruth Dammann, Fritz Gaerdes, Jan Gaerdes, Hans Jenny, Trudi Jenny, Beverley and Peter Pickford, Anneliese Scherz and Ernst Rudolf Scherz.
 
The holdings can be consulted in-house. A part of the collection (around 16,000 negatives) has been digitalised and can be searched via databanks using key words for locations, names of persons and institutions, and cultural terms.
 
 
Contact
Dag Henrichsen, dh(at)baslerafrika.ch
 
Last update
May 2011
 

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