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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.

Photographic prints assembled by Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap. relating to missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia). Some of the prints have been annotated:
African religious sisters. The prints are titled ‘Malawian Mass’ and ‘Magnificat Dance’.
Fr. Brian with religious sisters.
Aerial view of Santa Maria Mission at Lukulu.
Fr. Brian and Fr. Elzear Barry OFM Cap. in Mufulira, Zambia, in Jan. 1959.
Storm damage caused to the roof of the friars’ residence in Senanga on 8 Dec. 1978.
The grave of Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. at Lukulu.
Group of friars assembled for the visitation by Fr. Brendan O’Mahony OFM Cap., Provincial Minister in 1979.

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.

Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. before his departure for the Zambian Mission . A typescript description on the reverse reads: ‘Present at a farewell party for Rev. Fr. Flavian OFM Cap., who is leaving this week for the Missions in Zambia, which was held in St. Columba’s Hall, Douglas, were …’. Photographer / Studio: Donal J. Crowley, 19 South View, Ballinlough Road, Cork.

Photographic print of Fr. Macartan Hyland OFM Cap. (1939-2000) and Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap. probably taken in Zambia.

Photographic print of Fr. D. Wakuna in Lusaka, Zambia. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘First Diocesan Priest in the Livingstone Diocese’.