Repositories

  • Contact Information

    • Name:

      Public Records and Archives Administration Department, Regional Office, Cape Coast

    • Postal Address:

      P.O. Box AD. 65
      Cape Coast
      Ghana

    • Telephone:

      (233) 042-32123

    • Director:

      Felix Nyarko Ampong, Regional Archivist

    • Year founded:

      1963

  • Collections

    • Type of repository:

      Archive

    • Types of source material:

      Government records
      Newspapers
      Personal papers
      Photographs

    • Size:

      672 shelving units

    • Holdings:

      About 80% of the holdings consist of records from the the office of the Provincial (or Chief Commissioner's Office before independence). It was purely a political department. This is classified as the ADM series dating from 1902-1970. Others are: legal /court records 1840-1977; government reports 1886-1956; newspapers, 1897-present; ordinances 1918-1956; private papers, 1918-1956; parliamentary debates 1918-56; gazzette 1886-51; Blue Book of statistics, 1914-1958.

    • Receiving new material?

      No

    • Languages:

      English

  • Access Conditions

    • Access conditions:

      By introductory letter in case of foreigners. Searcher's Ticket.

    • Access restrictions:

      30 years

    • Finding tools:

      Accession lists or registers
      Inventories

    • Copier available?:

      No

  • Repository publications:

    • Funding Proposals Logistical Support For Acquisition & Preservation of Archival Material, "Salvaging Our Heritage. Central Regional Archives Cape Coast, May, 1995. (See Appendix I for holdings information) heritage.htm