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An image captioned 'Dominion Monarch / 1947'. The photograph shows a line-crossing ceremony on the ship, an initiation rite that commemorates a person's first crossing of the Equator. Built in England between 1937 and 1939, the 'Dominion Monarch' was a passenger liner which regularly operated services between Britain and ports in the southern hemisphere (particularly in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand).

An image on a canoe on the Zambezi River in Northern Rhodesia.

An image of a outdoor market or bazaar in Cape Town, South Africa.

Views of Parow parish, Flats District, Cape Town, South Africa. The prints are annotated on the reverse:
‘This is Parow in the Cape Flats. We could build a church and convent in the foreground. … The orphanage is in the distance’.
‘Parow / the ground in front is Vicariate-owned. Building on left is church. The other buildings are the orphanage’.
‘Three of the coloured orphans at the little Oratory, Parow’.
‘Fr. Kelly’s Church in the heart of the Flats. Typical flat country with occasional roads thro it. But he has very few residents in such a place. He is very old now and I expect we shall be asked to take it later. He has his own house and four mission churches attached – all built by his own parishioners’ hands’.

Capuchin friars with Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. in Cape Town on the occasion of his visitation to South Africa in 1957. Front row (from left): Fr. Raphael Curran OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., Fr. James O'Mahony OFM Cap., Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap. Fr. Didacus McGrath OFM Cap., Fr. Carthage Ruth OFM Cap. Back row (from left): Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O'Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Damascene McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Jerome McQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Macanise O'Neill OFM Cap., Fr. Marcellus Carroll OFM Cap.

A religious pageant for children, probably at a parish school in Cape Province, South Africa.

A religious sister (probably from the Sisters of the Holy Cross) with children, probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.

A religious sister (probably an Irish-born Sister of the Holy Cross) at a school (or orphanage) in Cape Province, South Africa.

A view of a replica Irish Round Tower located in the Philippi area of the Flats region near Cape Town in South Africa. The tower (formally known as St. Patrick’s Shrine) was built on the slopes of Table Mountain which overlooks the city of Cape Town. The tower was constructed by Fr. James Kelly, an Irish Catholic missionary. The tower was a noted landmark in the Cape Flats district and acted as a focal point for annual St. Patrick’s Day’s festivities for Cape Town’s Irish community with the spire bedecked with national colours. The tower was demolished in 1978.

A view of Sancta Maria mission station at Lukulu in Northern Rhodesia.