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’.
An outreach project from the Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood (FMDM) at Mangango in Zambia. The image shows Dr Kathleen O’Connor with a leprosy patient. Sr Martha Murtagh is in the background.
Print cuttings showing Capuchin friars who are working as missionaries in Africa. Includes prints of Fr. Brian Browne OFM Cap., Fr. Raymond Dillane OFM Cap., Fr. Ultan Weldon OFM Cap., and Br. Gabriel McGillicuddy OFM Cap. (1901-1998). These friars travelled to Northern Rhodesia in 1946. With a print of Monsignor Killian Flynn OFM Cap.
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.
A photographic print of Fr. James O’Mahony OFM Cap. with four African Little Sisters of St. Francis. The photograph may have been taken during Fr. O’Mahony’s visitation of the Livingstone mission in 1957.
