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Contact Information
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Name:
Public Archives of Sierra Leone -
Postal Address:
c/o Fourah Bay College
Freetown
Sierra Leone -
Telephone:
227509 -
E-mail:
moore-albert20@hotmail.com -
Director:
Albert Moore, Archivist, (Prof. Akintola J.G Wyse, Honorary Govt. Archivist) -
Year founded:
1965
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Collections
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Type of repository:
Archive -
Types of source material:
Archival records
Business records
Government records
Newspapers
Personal papers
Photographs
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Size:
80,000 linear metres -
Holdings:
The records cover many aspects of Sierra Leone history from the 18th century to the contemporary period. Pre-colonial holdings include documents pertaining to the activities of the Sierra Leone Company, repatriated Africans, the Crown Colony administration and relationships with neighbouring African peoples; original copies of treaties and agreements, birth and death registers (1858-1893), anti-slavery and abolitionist materials, travelogues, decree books, and intelligence diaries by European and African travellers. Colonial and post-colonial materiasl include official correspondence, district records for the twelve districts, the Freetown City Council and Rural Areas between 1930 and 1964, maps, and photographs.
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Receiving new material?
No -
Languages:
English
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Access Conditions
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Access conditions:
After the completion of an application form, users are issued Reader's Ticket valid for a year.
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Access restrictions:
30 years
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Finding tools:
Accession lists or registers
Inventories
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Copier available?:
No
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Repository publications:
- Chapter II: An Outline of the Holdings of the Public Archives Office.
- Records Centres in the United Kingdom as Models for Sierra Leone : Case studies on British Steel and the Dept of Trade and Industry. School of Library, Archive and Information Studies, University College London, Sepember, 1996.
- Sierra Leone Public Archives Office, Fourah Bay College, Mount Aureol, Freetown Sierra Leone. brochure, n.d.
- Albert Moore. The Role of Archives in National Development: Sierra Leone Public Archives, A Case Study. Dept.of. Modern History, Fourah Bay College, June, 1993