‘Beta Komos Photographics Limited, Letchworth, England’ box. The box is annotated: ‘Negatives. Irish Friars. Fr. Angelus Healy OFM Cap.’. The box includes twenty-two plates. The plates include: (a) A family portrait of six unidentified individuals. The plate is contained within an envelope with has manuscript annotation of dates and places from c.1915-27. (b) Br. Elzear Kelly OFM Cap. (1857-1937). With cover annotation. (c) Fr. Peter Bowe OFM Cap. (1856-1926) sitting in front of ornamental rug. Two plates within an annotated envelope. (d) A view of two Capuchin friars in the garden of St. Mary of the Angels, Church Street. One of the friars is cutting the lawn grass. With cover annotation. (e) Interior view of Rochestown Friary Church. With cover annotation. (f) Portrait of ‘the late John Bowe, Kilkenny Friary’. With cover annotation. The plates marked g-u do not contain any annotations. They are views of unidentified Capuchin friars (either as individuals or in groups). Includes some views of friars in the interior of houses, playing hurling or outdoors such as on a horse and cart.
‘Paget Prize Plate Co., Ltd., Watford’ box. The box contains seven plates. The plates include a view of Ards House (later Ard Mhuire Capuchin Friary) near Creeslough in County Donegal, and a group of five unidentified Capuchin friars walking in a garden (one of the friars has a hand over his face). The other five plates appear to be ‘holiday scenes’ including one of the Frederiksholms Kanal in Copenhagen, Denmark, and a promenade scene onboard a ship.
Two plates showing a Capuchin friar tending plants in a greenhouse in Rochestown, County Cork. The cover annotation suggests that the friar is Fr. Bernardine Harvey OFM Cap. (1874-1953).
Two plates showing portraits of Fr. Joseph Harkins OSFC (1853-1888). This Kilkenny-born friar traveled to India in about 1884 and took charge of a mission in Meerut in Uttar Pradesh. He died in Meerut on 1 December 1888. The larger plate (10.5 cm x 8 cm) appears to a photographic print of a portrait painting. With an annotated cover.
Two plates showing showing studio portraits of Fr. Charles. This is probably Fr. Charles of Mantua OFM Cap. (d. 18 Dec. 1879). The images show Fr. Charles sitting at a writing table. With a print of one of the images (a carte de visite from Callaghan Photographer, 45 South Mall, Cork). With an annotated cover.
A file of four plates showing various views of Fountains Abbey, approximately two miles southwest of Ripon in North Yorkshire.The structure is a ruined Cistercian monastery, founded in 1132. Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved Cistercian houses in England. With manuscript captions. The plates are labelled a-d.
Two images showing a large procession to the Capuchin Friary, Rochestown, County Cork. The annotated cover reads ‘Procession. Rochestown. 1905’. The photograph shows the Corpus Christi procession to the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown. This annual celebration held at the friary attracted huge crowds from both the city and county in the first two decades of the twentieth century. People travelled by train, by trap or walked to the friary from Cork city. It was the most popular event of the year at Rochestown until 1926 when the first Cork city procession was held.
A file containing ‘Lastre a gelatine bromuro d’argento … di Cappelli, Milano’ box containing four large plate reproductions of an original manuscript. The box cover gives two dates of 1906 and 1911 (probably company awards). A faint manuscript annotation on the box reads: ‘Catalogo Campione’. The manuscript is titled on the first plate: ‘De haeresis Anglicanae in Iberniam intrusione et progressu, et de Bell Catholico ad annum 1641 caepto, exindeque per aliquot gesto, Commentarius’. The plates are images of the original copy of the ‘Commentarius Rinuccinanus’ held in the Archivio Storico Milano. The original text was destroyed in a bombing raid on Milan during the Second World War.
