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’.
A view of the first Dutch Reformed Mission Church in the Cape Flats region of Cape Town in South Africa. The print is annotated: ‘The recently completed church in Lawrence Road, Athlone. It has seating accommodation for about 500 people’. Manuscript annotation reads: ‘This is for non-Europeans. The whites have another. Built [in] two months’.
An image of a woman kissing the Blarney Stone. Blarney Castle is a fifteenth-century tower house located in County Cork. According to legend, kissing the stone (which is built into the battlements of the castle) bestows upon the person the gift of eloquence, flattery, and persuasiveness. Though earlier fortifications were built on the site, the current castle structure was constructed in 1446 by the MacCarthys of Muskerry, a branch of the Kings of Desmond.
Copy print of the Most Rev. John Evangelist McBride OFM (1903-1991), Bishop of Kokstad, South Africa. The print is on the reverse of a memorial card which notes that he was professed on 17 Sept. 1925; Ordained Priest on 3 July 1927; Ordained Bishop on 25 July 1949. He served as Bishop of Kokstad until 1978.