The Most Rev. Timothy Phelim O'Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic of the Livingstone Vicariate, with Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia. The group includes Fr. James O'Mahony OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister), Fr. Capistran Singleton OFM Cap., Fr. Albeus MacQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap., and Fr. Albert Hayes OFM Cap.
An image of the exterior of the Holy Cross Sisters' convent at Kalabo in Zambia. An annotation on the reverse reads ‘African Sisters' Covent at Kalabo'.
A view of the Loanja mission station, Barotseland. An annotation on the reverse reads 'Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken'.
Postcard print showing local children in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. The children are holding a sign which reads ‘Many thanks for Donation / God Bless You’.
A collection of prints of local Christians mainly associated with the missionary work of the Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Most of the prints are not captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual' and 'The Father Mathew Record'. The captioned photographs include: • ‘Peter: a cook boy – on right in picture, a Catholic. Kinabini – our kitchen boy [and] on left, a catechumen. These are the 2 boys who came with us from Mankoya to help us to start our mission here’. • Holy Cross mission, Mekading, Basutoland (later Lesotho). • ‘Local smoking women’ probably in Basutoland. • Church-goers at Quachas Nek, Basutoland. • ‘Our Well’ showing local children beside a primitive water well. • Portrait photograph showing ‘an African Witchdoctor’. • ‘Mother teaching children to balance baskets on their heads’. • ‘Paddling by Canoe to their village during the rainy season’. • ‘Making bricks at the Sancta Maria Mission in Lukulu’. • A local woman preparing an evening meal. • Leprosy victims and disabled children. • ‘A leper patient in Mangango, blind and crippled known as the “Joker”’. • Pounding maize.