Contact Information

• Name:

  Free State Provincial Archives

• Postal Address:

  Private Bag X20504
  9301 Bloemfontein
  South Africa

• Location:

  29 Badenhorst Street

• Telephone:

  (27) 051 322 6762

• Facsimile:

  (27) 051 522 6765

• E-mail:

  fsarch01@hotmail.co.za

• URL:

  www.national. Archives.gov.za

• Director:

  Mr. P F Wheeler

• Year founded:

  1927

Collections

• Type of repository:

  Archive

• Types of source material:

  Archival records
  Ecclesiastical records
  Government records
  Manuscripts
  Maps
  Newspapers
  Oral histories
  Personal papers
  Photographs
  Posters
  

• Size:

  about 6,000 linear meters

• Holdings:

  Public and non-public records created in the Free State provincial region. Earliest records date back to about 1845

• Receiving new material?

  No

• Languages:

  Dutch, Afrikaans, and English
  

Access Conditions

• Access conditions:

  no conditions

• Access restrictions:

  20 years

• Finding tools:

  Accession lists or registers
  Card catalogs
  Electronic catalogs
  Guides
  Inventories
  

• Copier available?:

  No

Repository publications: