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An image taken from on board the 'Dominion Monarch' docked in the Port of Cape Town, South Africa. The ship in the distance is either the RMMV 'Stirling Castle' or her identical sister ship the RMMV 'Athlone Castle', British passenger liners built by Harland & Wolff (Belfast) for the Union-Castle Line's mail service from Southampton to Cape Town.

An image of the ‘Irish Larch’, an Irish Shipping Limited merchant vessel, docked at the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.

An image of the 'Dominion Monarch' passenger ship docked at the Port of Cape Town in South Africa.

An image of Jamestown, the largest settlement on the island of Saint Helena. Fr. Jarlath Gough OFM Cap. (1902-1983) was the only resident Catholic priest on the island from 1957 to 1964. The Sacred Heart Church (built in 1852) in Jamestown is visible in the image. Fr. Jarlath's principal achievement was the restoration of this church. See also CA AMI/2/10/2/22, CA AMI/1/6/9 and CA AMI/2/14/1.

A view of ‘Brookside’ on Lansdowne Road in Claremont, Cape Province, South Africa. The print shows a building used as a residence by the Irish Capuchin friars.

Two external views of the Church of St. Mary of the Angels, Athlone, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Our first Capuchin Church in Cape Town / St. Mary of the Angels’.

An external view of St. Anthony’s Church, Langa, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘St. Anthony’s, Langa, Table Mountain in background’.

An external view of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Parow, Cape Town. Manuscript annotation on the reverse reads ‘Church of the Immaculate Conception, Parow, Cape Town’.

A view of the interior of the Catholic Hall in Athlone parish, Cape Town, South Africa. A parish fete is taking place in the hall.

Photographs showing the visit of Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd (1901-1966), Minister of Bantu Affairs in the South African government (he was later Prime Minister), to the Holy Family Mission at Katima Mulilo in the Caprivi Strip (situated in present-day Namibia but then under South African control). A typescript note is extant in the file. It reads: ‘The purpose of his visit to the Mission was to assess the possible implications of implanting the infamous Bantu Education Act into the Caprivi where, at the time, all the schools were administered by the Capuchins with the aid of a very meagre subsidy from the S.A. government. Dr. Verwoerd (the “architect of apartheid”, was assassinated during his reign as Prime Minister) enforced the Bantu Education Act, in the late 1950s, as a means of preventing black South Africans from receiving an education anywhere near the standard enjoyed by other ethnic groups, e.g. whites and coloureds’. One of the photographs shows Verwoerd (identified with an 'X') with various religious including Bishop Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. and Fr. Bartholomew Prendiville OFM Cap., superior of the Katima Mulilo Mission. See also CA AMI/2/10/3/110.