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Two external views of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Our first Capuchin Church in Cape Town / St. Mary of the Angels’.

A view of building work on the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa. The print is annotated on the reverse: ‘The unfinished school and chapel at Athlone, Cape Flats’.

A view of the exterior of St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa. Consecrated in April 1851, it is the oldest Catholic cathedral in the country. The photograph probably shows a religious ceremony celebrating the centenary of the cathedral's foundation.

Children from St. Raphael’s School, adjacent to the Church of St. Mary of the Angels in Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

An image of the fountain in the centre of St. Stephen's Green in Dublin.

The exterior of St. Theresa’s School, Welcome Estate, Cape Town, South Africa. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘This part was built in 1933. Two moveable partitions made it one large room for Mass (3 classrooms). The third room (back part) added to the original 2 classrooms’.

An image of the students and staff of St. Theresa's Primary School, Welcome Estate, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

A view of Table Mountain as seen from the bell tower of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town, South Africa.

Building a temporary church at the Mankoya mission station in Northern Rhodesia.

Report on the Irish Capuchin mission in South Africa. It is noted that ‘much of the Fathers’ time is taken up with convert work, pre-nuptial courses and teaching Christian Doctrine to children attending the public schools’. Statistical information (population, racial composition, and number of priests) is given in respect of the friars’ work in Parow, Athlone, the Welcome Estate, Belgravia and Langa. It is affirmed that the ‘bulk of the non-white people, i.e. the poorest of this diocese, is attended by the Capuchin Fathers’.