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Finally online: PARC

Name: 11th Namibia Research Day, 17th & 18th October 2025: Call for Papers
Start: 2025-10-17T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-10-18T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Visit www.parc-portal.org to explore the meta catalogue for all Africana collections in Basel.

New at the BAB Publishing House

New Publication:
Defending the Investment

New Publication:
Narrating Africa – Narrating Namibia

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The archive holdings encompass more than 100’000 images, mainly emphasising Namibia and southern Africa in the 20th century. The images include photographic materials (negatives, positives, slides and a few glass plates), postcards and picture cards. For the BAB’s large poster collection, please refer to the library catalogue.

Most of the images stem from Personal Archives and are often organised in photo albums, series (e.g. negative films) or lots (fotos assembled in envelopes, boxes or as slideshows). Often, the image holdings are closely related to text, sound and/or film documents from the same Personal Archive.

Approximately 12,000 negatives are available in digital form. Of these, about 3,000 images and around 70 albums have been individually catalogued and indexed.

For further information:
Archive catalogue
archive@baslerafrika.ch