A collection of sorts and type cases used by printers for the publication of 'The Capuchin Annual'. A sort is a piece of metal type representing a letter or symbol, cast from a matrix mold and assembled with other sorts bearing additional letters into lines of type to make up a form from which a page is printed. The file also includes two original card boxes holding the type sorts: an empty Adana Standard Printers’ Type / 12pt. Times Roman (lower case letters only) and 6pt. Rockwell Light type supplied by Eric W. Massey Ltd., 13 Harcourt Street, Dublin.
An internal view of the Catholic Church at Tyger Valley, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Church at Tyger Valley / Fr. Oliver O’Hanlon OFM Cap.’.
Two women (one sitting and holding a jug) on a forested hillside. The standing girl appears to be collecting berries. The image was probably taken near the Capuchin Friary in Rochestown, County Cork.
A republican handbill comparing the treatment of Irish prisoners held by the Free State authorities with those detained by the administration in the Northern Ireland. The leaflet suggests that both administrations are ‘puppets’ of England.
A short biographical brochure on Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O'Connor OFM Cap. published on the occasion of the repatriation and reburial of the two priests in Ireland in 1958.
