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Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. relating to his missionary work in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated:
Fr. Jude with Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. in Cape Town on 22 Nov. 1966.
The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone, in 1966.
Fr. Jude with Holy Cross Sisters at a retreat in Malengwa, Mongu, in 1968.
Fr. Jude at the ordination of Fr. Damien Loughrey OFM Cap., missionary friar, in Dublin in 1986.
The interior and exterior of Mangango Mission Hospital.
The Most Rev. Raymond Mpezele, Bishop of Livingstone, at the Convent of the Poor Clares in Lusaka in c.2000.
Fr. Peter Rodgers OFM Cap. with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. and other friars in Zambia in 2002.
Br. Rod Pieretti OFM Cap., Fr. Jude McKenna and Fr. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. at a celebration in St. Conrad’s Friary, Lusaka, marking seventy-five years of the Capuchins in Zambia in 2006.
Fr. John Corriveau OFM Cap., Minister General, with Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap., Fr. Augustine Mainza OFM Cap. and Fr. Daniel Gomez OFM Cap. at Padre Pio House in Lusaka in 2006.
Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap. attending a meeting of East African Capuchin Conference (EACC) in Pretoria, South Africa, in 2006. The group includes friars from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Michael Murphy OFM Cap. relating to his missionary work in Zambia. Most of the prints have been annotated:
Fr. Michael with local children at Langa, Cape Town, South Africa on 23 Nov. 1966.
Fr. Michael celebrating mass at a temporary church in the bushland around Kashembe on 3 Apr. 1970.
Fr. Michael at Malengwa, Mongu, Zambia.
Fr. Michael with local children in Livingstone in 1967.
Fr. Michael with Litunga Mwanawina, Paramount Chief, in Limulunga in Mar. 1968. The group also includes Fr. Macartan Hyland OFM Cap., Fr. Connor Brady OFM Cap. (1923-1993) and two Christian Brothers.
The blessing of the church at Namboata on 24 Sept. 1972.
Fr. Michael with Fr. Jim Cleary OFM Cap. at Santa Ines Mission in California on 23 Aug. 1987.

Photographic prints of a visit by the Most Rev. Adrian Mung’andu, Bishop of Livingstone, to a Capuchin mission in Zambia. The images show the bishop celebrating Mass, blessing a building and meeting locally-born religious sisters and the local community.

Photographic prints of Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. The prints are extant on loose cards taken from a photographic album (CA AMI/2/10/1/2). Most of the prints have been annotated:
Capuchin friars at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at the Livingstone Capuchin Friary.
Confirmations at the Maramba mission station.
Fr. Colga O’Riordan OFM Cap.
Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1940.
‘Fathers, Sisters and girl boarders, Easter 1941’.
The mission car in 1941.
A trek to a mission station in 1937.
‘Hoisting a roof on a mission hut’.
A local cook with his wife at an Irish Capuchin mission station.
The building of the first Capuchin mission church in 1938.
The interior of a mission church in 1939.
Local game shot outside the mission grounds.
Preparations for an eight-week trek through the bush.
The Capuchin community in Sichili in 1937 (Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap.).
A local teacher and altar servers.
The building of the father’s dwelling at a mission station.
Scenes on the way to Sesheke (including the local chief’s hut).
The Parish Church and Capuchin Friary in Livingstone.

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.

Photographic prints of religious sisters at the Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. The images show the sisters providing food and medical care to local villagers.

A collection of black and white and colour photographic prints associated with the work of religious sisters mainly 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:
• Sisters in a garden with African children, Basutoland (later Lesotho).
• A sister and an African worker draining a marshy area.
• ‘The sisters wear white habits when nursing’. (The Father Mathew Record).
• Nurses’ accommodation – ‘Sister and nurses sitting on a Basutoland blanket with students’. (Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape, South Africa).
• Two religious sisters and a crippled man at St. Francis Hospital, Aliwal, South Africa.
• Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood at Mangango leprosarium.
• African Sisters’ Convent at Kalabo, Northern Rhodesia.
• Two first-year African students at Kaoma Secondary School.
• ‘A petrified Sr. Lelia going to visit one of Sr. Elizabeth’s gardens – her first trip in a canoe’.
• ‘Sister Josephine FMDM, the sister in charge of leprosarium in Mangango. She comes from Leitrim’.

Group photograph showing the first scout group in the Caprivi Strip founded by Fr. Eugene Mooney OFM Cap. The image shows the scouts with Fr. John Grace OFM Cap. and Fr. Malachy Breslin OFM Cap.