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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’.

Sketch map of St. Joseph’s Cemetery ‘5 acres 2 roods 0 perches, late botanic gardens, representatives of Rev. Fr. Theobald Mathew’, bordered by ‘South Spittal Lands’ and by ‘the back road to the cemetery called on [the] city map “Tory Top Lane”’. The map also shows various numbered denominations of land possibly on the former Botanic Gardens' site. A numbered schedule of deeds and lease (nos. 3-16), possibly relating to the aforementioned site, is extant on the reverse of the sketch map.

Advertisements from the 'Irish Times' (5 Mar. 1927), the 'Londonderry Sentinel' (15 Dec. 1928) and the 'Derry Journal' (24 Apr. 1929) for the sale of ‘the well-known and historical mansion of Ards and its demesne’. The 'Irish Times' advertisement includes a brief account of the Stewart-Bam ownership of the estate. The 'Sentinel' article advertises a ‘two-day dispersal sale of stock, crop, farming implements’ and other sundries at the Ards Estate farmyard on 19-20 Dec. 1928. The 'Derry Journal' advertisement itemizes the contents of the house (including furniture, oil portraits, silver, linen and ‘an extensive library of books’) which will be offered for sale at a series of auctions from 6 May 1929.

Letter from Hugh A. Law (1872-1943), Marble Hill, County Donegal, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., guardian, Ard Mhuire Friary, seeking permission to place trout fry in a lake located on the friary estate.

A view of Ards House and demesne as seen from the shores of Sheephaven Bay in County Donegal.

Copy print of a sketch map of the 'Ards Estate Home Farm Offices, the property of A.J.R. Stewart'. The map dates to c.1870. The copy photographic print is of a later date.

Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Prefect Apostolic of Victoria Falls (Livingstone), in 1936.

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.

Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at a religious retreat in Mongu, Zambia. The group includes religious sisters and (on the right) Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.

An image of the construction of a rudimentary school at Loanja mission station in Barotseland.