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Negative sheets (for black and white prints) of various scenes of Capuchin friars at Sichili Mission Station in Northern Rhodesia. With photographic wallet of L.F. Moore, Dispensing and Photographic Chemist, Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. Some of the images appear to be extant in the photographic volume at CA AMI/2/10/1/2.

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’.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. (1920-2008) relating to missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Some of the prints have been annotated:
Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. and religious sisters with local Christians, c.1955.
Christening of Clare Mary Hudson by Fr. Luke Brown OFM Cap. at Mangango on 2 Feb. 1960.
The exterior of St. Theresa’s Church in Livingstone, Zambia, in 1965.
Fr. Luke and Fr. Theophilus Murphy OFM Cap. with five Sisters of Mercy from Cork at a Mercy Hospital and School in Kenya in May 1974.
Fr. Luke at an open-air market in Kenya in May 1974.
Fr. Luke at a SEACA Meeting in the Seychelles in May 1974.
Fr. Luke celebrating an open-air Mass at Luampungu, Sichili, in Zambia in c.1976.
Fr. Luke celebrating Mass in Tanzania in Dec. 1976.
The parishioners in Sichili Church, Zambia, in c.1977.
Fr. Luke Browne OFM Cap. and Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap. at a SEACA Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya, in May 1980.
Fr. Luke inspecting a ward in the Cheshire Home, Mongu, Malengwa, Zambia, in Aug. 1987.
Fr. Luke with a Sr. Francis visiting various mission locations in Zambia in Sept. 1994.

Letter from Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. (1908-1996) to Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap., Provincial Minister, affirming that his health has improved and thanking him for his kind words of encouragement. The file includes a copy medical report affirming that Fr. Timothy is ‘quite unfitted for work in the bush’ (28 Apr. 1938). With a letter from Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. referring to Fr. Timothy’s medical examination in Cape Town and thanking him for his three years’ work in Africa (24 June 1938).

Letters of Fr. Alfred O’Mahony OFM Cap. (1912-1988). The file includes letters from teachers and from the local populace to Fr. Alfred relating to his role as principal at mission schools in Sancta Maria Mission (Lukulu), in Malengwa, and later at Maramba. The file also includes letters pertaining to his role as Regular Superior in Livingstone, to Fr. Colman Griffin OFM Cap., Provincial Minister. The subjects include: the possibility of Irish Capuchins working in the Port Elizabeth Vicariate in South Africa; Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy’s desire to return to Ireland. (25 July 1951); enclosing a list of personnel and statistics for both the South African and Northern Rhodesian missions. (16 Oct. 1951); the construction of churches at the Sancta Maria mission, and at Mankoya, and a friary at Kalabo in Northern Rhodesia. (5 Jan. 1952); developments in Athlone parish, Cape Province. (25 June 1953); the ‘education side’ of the mission in Livingstone. (20 Mar. 1954). The file incudes enclosed letters to Fr. Alfred from the Most Rev. Owen McCann (1907-1994), Archbishop of Cape Town. With a letter from Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap. enclosing a list of Zambian churches with resident Capuchin friars, and the names of the titular feasts associated with each church. Reference is also made to the activities of the following Irish Capuchin missionaries: Fr. Jerome MacQuillan OFM Cap., Fr. Anslem Griffin OFM Cap.; Fr. Alban Cullen OFM Cap.; Fr. Salvator Quinn OFM Cap.