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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’.

Photographic album of Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. The album contains un-captioned black and white photographic prints. Fr. Jarlath was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49. The collection includes some views of local worshipers and parishioners (in Northern Rhodesia and in South Africa). Includes prints of Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Luke Sheehan OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap., Fr. Edwin Fitzgibbon OFM Cap. (Provincial Minister from 1931-7) with Fr. Paschal Larkin OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and others, a group of young friars at St. Bonaventure’s Friary, the voyage of the Union Castle Line ship, RMMV 'Cape Town Castle', in December 1947.

Lists of Irish Capuchin friars at various mission stations in Northern Rhodesia. The list is arranged under the following locations:
St. Mary’s, Livingstone (Rt. Rev. Bishop O’Shea OFM Cap., Vicar Apostolic)
St. Theresa’s Pro-Cathedral, Livingstone
Christ the King Mission, Maramba
St. Fidelis Mission, Sichili
Holy Family Mission, Katima Mulilo
St. Joseph’s Mission, Mankoya
St. Francis Mission, Mongu
St. Patrick’s Mission, Kalabo
Sancta Maria Mission

35 mm colour slides of photographs taken by Br. Joseph Murphy OFM Cap. (1929-2009). The majority are images of missionary work in Zambia. Br. Joseph ministered in Zambia from 1958-79. Many of the slides relate to the visitation of the mission undertaken by Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. (1923-2004), Provincial Minister, in 1968. The file includes:
• Local leprosy patients
• Fr. Berard inspecting construction work on mission buildings
• Capuchin friars with Irish religious sisters working in Zambia
• Fr. Berard Creed OFM Cap. and Fr. Anthony Boran OFM Cap. greeting Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap.
• Mission churches and residences in Zambia
• Friars performing baptisms and celebrating other religious ceremonies with the local populace
• Victoria Falls.
• Patients undergoing procedures in mission hospitals.
• Fr. John Grace OFM Cap.
• Sioma Falls
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. with Capuchin friars at Dublin Airport awaiting his return journey to Zambia. Several general views of the airport are also extant.
The file also includes several non-mission photographs including images of a Pontifical Mass celebrated by Pope Paul VI in St. Peter’s in Rome in September 1970, St. Bonaventure's Hostel in Cork, and several images of family and other relations of Br. Joseph.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘II’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Domhnall Ó Corcora (Daniel Corkery), Joseph O’Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Edward Joseph Little (Cliftonville, Bray, County Wicklow), Germaine Stockley, Fr. Bosco Lennon OFM Cap., Francis Joseph Little (28 Rathgar Road, Dublin), H. Martin Hamilton, Fr. P.J. Brophy, F. O’Reilly (Secretary, Irish National Committee for the Holy Year 1950), Aindrias Ó Muimhneacháin (Belmont Gardens, Donnybrook, Dublin), Susan Hughes Goetz, Redmond Corbett, Fr. Gilbert OFM Cap. (Capuchin Friary, Pantasaph, Holywell, North Wales), Fr. Carmelo Durante of Sessano OFM Cap., Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Albert Dryer (11 Kenyon Street, Fairfield, Sydney), Seumas MacManus, John English & Co. (printers), Charles Travers (Secretary, Owen Roe O’Neill Memorial Committee), Alan Macauley (Sierra Madre, California), Patrick John Little, Fr. William Ferris (St. Michael’s Church, Ballylongford), Margaret Devlin, Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia), Fr. Conrad Simonsen Mackey OFM Cap. (Madrid, Spain), Mary Hardebeck, Gerald Pyne (Harehills, Leeds), Adolf Morath (photographer), Tomás Ó Muircheartaigh, Matthew Feehan (editor of the ‘Sunday Press’), Sister M. Catherine (Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary, Killeshandra, County Cavan), D.L. Kelleher, Fr. Jerome Hawes TOSF (Mount Alvernia Hermitage, Cat Island, Bahamas), Fr. Terence L. Connolly SJ, Zoltan Lewinter-Frankl, Patrick J. Doyle (Columbia Avenue, Hammond, Indiana), Denis MacDaid, Benedict Kiely, Sir Charles Alexander Petrie, George Francis Troup Horne (Birbeck College, London), Philip F. Roden (Emory Street, Jersey City, United States), Joseph Patrick Walshe (Irish Ambassador to the Holy See), Séamus Campbell, and Max Gluckman.

A volume containing letters to Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. The spine is annotated ‘D 5’. Contains personal letters and correspondence relating to the Capuchin Publications Office. Includes letters from Nicolò Falchi, Jocelyn Harcourt, John MacCourt, Adolf Morath (photographer), Patrick John Little, Kathleen M. Murphy (poet and travel writer), Pádraig De Brún, Fr. Henry Edward George Rope, Fr. Cuthbert Gumbinger OFM Cap., John English & Co. (printers), Bishop John Dignan, Sophie Raffalovich O'Brien, Rita McGoldrick, Fr. Donal Herlihy (Pontifical Irish College, Rome), Victor Waddington, Joseph O'Connor (Seosamh Ó Conchubhair), Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., the Catholic Stage Guild, Alice Rynne (née Curtayne), Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Kathleen Bowles, Aodh de Blacam, and Seumas O’Brien (sculptor, dramatist, fabulist, 1880-1959). Enclosures include agenda of meeting of the governors and guardians of the National Gallery of Ireland (Feb. 1951) and a print of St. Augustine’s Abbey Church, Fox Hill, Nassau, Bahamas.

Photoengraving plates produced for publication in 'The Capuchin Annual'. The printing plates are not captioned but include the following images:
• Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap. (1900-1977)
• Fr. Henry Anglin OFM Cap. (1910-1977)
• Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. (1902-1979)
• Fr. Bonaventure Murphy OFM Cap. (1880-1968)
• Br. Aidan Byrne OFM Cap. (1887-1963)
• Fr. Xavier Reardon OFM Cap. (1899-1986)
• Fr. Angelus O’Neill OFM Cap.
• Fr. Gerald Barron OFM Cap.
• Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Michael Duffy OFM Cap.
• Fr. Dan Joe O’Mahony OFM Cap.
• Fr. Jude McKenna OFM Cap.
• Fr. Noel Brennan OFM Cap.
• Fr. Kenneth Reynolds OFM Cap.
• Fr. Ronald Grace OFM Cap.
• Br. Lawrence Speight OFM Cap.
• Fr. Flavian Welstead OFM Cap. (1939-2017)
• St. Kevin’s Church (otherwise St. Kevin’s Kitchen) by Peter F. Anson
• Pope Pius XII (1876-1958)

Originally a printed book: 'In memoriam, Peter Fenelon' Collier (New York: privately printed, 1910), 113 pp. The book was subsequently used to house newspaper cuttings mainly relating to the history and friars of the Capuchin community, Holy Trinity Friary in Cork. The volume includes cuttings relating to triduums, ordinations, transfers, provincial chapters, missions and retreats, the Third Order of St. Francis, a note on the Father Mathew Chalice, and various Capuchin apostolates in Cork. The volume also contains obituaries of Fr. Bernard Jennings OSFC (d. 26 Dec. 1904); Fr. Cyril O'Sullivan OSFC (9 Dec. 1921); Fr. Fiacre Brophy OSFC (d. 5 Oct. 1926). Includes an original photographic print of Fr. Fiacre’s funeral; Fr. Peter Bowe OSFC (d. 25 Nov. 1926); Fr. Dermot O’Reilly OFM Cap. (d. 9 May 1945); Fr. Crispin Brennan OFM Cap. (d. 3 July 1949); Fr. Pacificus Ryan OFM Cap. (d. 1 July 1950); Fr. John Butler OFM Cap. (d. 3 Oct. 1950); Archbishop Sylvester Mulligan OFM Cap. (d. 23 Oct. 1950); Fr. Thomas Dowling OFM Cap. (d. 7 Jan. 1951). Other cuttings refer to the International Cork Exhibition (July 1902) and the consecration of Monsignor Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. as the first Vicar Apostolic of Livingstone in Northern Rhodesia.

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 album (titled ‘The Cambrian Album’) containing black and white prints of the early Irish Capuchin missionaries in Northern Rhodesia. Some of the prints were later annotated by Fr. Edwin Flynn OFM Cap. The album includes:
• Two views of St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone.
• Postcard print of the consecration of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic, 25 Nov. 1936.
• Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. with local Christians. (Fr. Agathangelus was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49).
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. at Mulobezi. (Fr. Timothy was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1935-9, Fr. Fintan from 1933-9, and Fr. Christopher from 1933-44).
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. and Fr. Agathangelus Herlihy OFM Cap. outside a tent; Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi River; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of the Zambezi; Fr. Killian Flynn OFM Cap. on horseback.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. and Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. inspecting a van with rifles perched against wheel; A view of a barge crossing a river in Northern Rhodesia.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. with a fishing rod.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. hunting wild game in Northern Rhodesia (including leopards and zebras).
• Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. and Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. with a large group of worshippers outside St. Theresa’s Church, Livingstone. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. was resident in Northern Rhodesia from 1936-49.
• Livingstone Church and adjoining school; Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the banks of a river; a view of Victoria Falls.
• Fr. Fintan Roche OFM Cap. on the veranda of Livingstone Friary; local Christians with a religious sister at a pageant.
• The installation of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap. as Prefect Apostolic (25 Nov. 1936). The photograph includes: Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap., Fr. Seraphin Nesdale OFM Cap., Fr. Christopher Crowley OFM Cap., Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap., Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap., Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap., Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap., Br. Alexius Paolucci OFM Cap. and the Most Rev. Aston Chichester SJ, Archbishop of Salisbury, Rhodesia.
• Fr. Timothy Connery OFM Cap. at Sawmills School.
• Photographs of early missionary churches and buildings.