A collection of prints including many of Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Bishop of Livingstone from 1959-74). Most of the prints are un-captioned. The file includes prints collected for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The captioned photographs include: • Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. in Northern Rhodesia in c.1931. The images were probably taken during a trip to Victoria Falls. • Group of Irish Capuchin friars in Northern Rhodesia. Front row (from left to right): Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap. Back row: Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The photograph was probably taken after the installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic on 25 Nov. 1936. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. at a Parish Council meeting at the new church, Shimano, Mangango Mission. c.1970. • Bishop O’Shea with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. in 1967. • Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. • Bishop O’Shea at a retreat in Mongu in Aug. 1974. The group includes religious sisters and Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the Little Sisters of St. Francis. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with Sr. Colmcille and three new novices. • Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap. with the President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda.
Photographic pints assembled by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) during missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (1931-3) and later in India. Only a small number of the prints are annotated: Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Building work on the Capuchin house and church in Livingstone. The first mission station at Loanja ‘cleared and built in virgin bush. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in the foreground’. ‘Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken’. ‘Building of school at Loanja’. ‘Fr. Peyton at Sichili’. Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. with local men. Fr. Declan with local converts and communicants. Religious sisters with local children. Fr. Declan standing outside the Livingstone Capuchin house. The exteriors and interiors of Capuchin churches in Northern Rhodesia. Postcard prints of wild game in Northern Rhodesia. India: ‘Paharganj Bazaar / Italian Capuchins in India, Old Delhi’.
A collection of black and white photographic prints mostly relating to Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls from 1936-50. Most of the prints have been captioned by his nephew, Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. and some were published in Mgr. Killian Flynn as seen from his letters (Ndola, 2003). The file includes prints of Fr. Killian: • As a novitiate and student. • With his parents. • With Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap. (1897-1980) probably on a ship during their first voyage to Africa in 1931. • With African porters during a long trek into the bush, 1931-2. • With Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. (1876-1958) celebrating the opening of the first mission church on 30 Oct. 1932. • The exterior of the ‘Stone Police Camp’ at Livingstone, the site of the first mission chapel, 1932. • With Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap., Fr. Jerome MacQuillan OFM Cap. and Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap., 1935. • With Paramount Chief Yeta III of Barotseland. • With Cardinal Laurean Rugambwa, Nairobi Cathedral in 1967. • At the first all-African Bishops’ Conference in Kampala, Uganda, in 1969. • At the Zambian Episcopal Conference. • Receiving an MBE in Livingstone. • Greeting Pope Paul VI in Kampala, Uganda. The Pope visited Uganda from 31 July to 2 Aug. 1969 • With Capuchin friars from East and Southern Africa in 1972.
