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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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Image

The historical image archives include slides, negatives, prints, posters and other media. Collections are digitised in an ongoing process. Some 25,000 digital images in the formats TIFF and JPEG are currently available.

Of these, some 3,000 digital images (from negatives, prints and slides) are searchable through the online archive catalogue.

Some additional 15,000 digital images have been catalogued and are searable online ; however, they are not displayed online. A certain number of working copies can be ordered if copyright regulations permit this.

The approximately 5,200 digitised posters are introduced separately.

Video tutorial: Search images in the archive catalogue