Basel Mission Gold Coast photographs
name: label: Creator
content: Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel
label: Creator
content: Switzerland. Basel Mission Archives
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Ghana
label: Place
content: Kumasi (Ghana)
label: Place
content: Akure (Nigeria)
label: Place
content: Nigeria
creator: label: Creator
content: Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel
label: Creator
content: Switzerland. Basel Mission Archives
culture: label: Culture
content: Asante (African people)
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs taken by members of the Basel Mission and by professional photographers. The majority of photographs were taken in the Basel Mission Faktorei (B.M.F.) in Accra and in other Basel Mission stores in Dodowa, Akure, Nsawam and Kumasi. Photographs taken by the members of the Basel Mission are of missionary life, flora and fauna, daily activities and named missionaries and their spouses. The professional images were of better quality and larger in size than the personal photographs. Among them are several images of a railroad station in Accra and a fleet of trucks belonging to the Basel Mission. 

Most significant among these photographs are 30 images of Asante people and of carved Asante stools. Two images were taken by F.R.C. Lutterodt, a well-known Ghanaian photographer, who had maintained studios in German Cameroon and in Ghana.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 152 Photographic prints (dupe prints, black & white, 8 x 10 in.)
label: Extent
content: 152 Photographic prints (+2 postcards , black & white, 15 x 20 cm or smaller.)
label: Extent
content: 152 Negatives (photographic) (dupe negs, black and white, 4 x 5 in.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1915
container: label: Container
content: Box 1
label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Volume 2
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Purchased, 1997. Conserved through a preservation grant funded by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee, 2006.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1997-011
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Postcards
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
label: Genre/Form
content: Postcards