handwritten prayers and devotions.
Textbooks and journals kept at Turner's Cross Convent relating to religious matters. > An Introduction to Islam,
An image of religious sisters of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady outside St. Francis Hospital in Monroe in North Louisiana in the United States. A manuscript annotation on the reverse of the print reads ‘Group taken in 1919 at St. Francis / Monroe’. An index is given for the names and nationalities of the sisters. At least nine of the group are Irish.
Religious sisters perusing flowers from a cart on a Belfast street. An annotation on the reverse of the print reads 'October flowers at the Belfast Market'.
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’.
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.
A plate showing a group of unidentified nuns in a community photograph. The group appears to show both novices and solemnly professed sisters.
A religious sister (probably an Irish-born Sister of the Holy Cross) at a school (or orphanage) in Cape Province, South Africa.
A religious sister (probably from the Sisters of the Holy Cross) with children, probably from a parish school or orphanage in Cape Province, South Africa.
An image of an unidentified religious sister captioned on the reverse ‘off Freetown, West Africa’.