Mission Photographs of Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap.

Details

Level of description

File

Date

c.1931-1950

Reference

3

Extent and medium

72 items; 16 cm x 15 cm; 11.5 cm x 9.5 cm; 6.5 cm x 4.5 cm; 8 cm x 6 cm; Black and white prints; 7 black and white negatives

Scope and content

Photographic pints assembled by Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. (1901-1979) during missionary work in Northern Rhodesia (1931-3) and later in India. Only a small number of the prints are annotated: Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) Building work on the Capuchin house and church in Livingstone. The first mission station at Loanja ‘cleared and built in virgin bush. Fr. Timothy Phelim O’Shea OFM Cap. in the foreground’. ‘Back view of the Loanja Station with little oratory in foreground. They were just clearing the brush and scrub away when this was taken’. ‘Building of school at Loanja’. ‘Fr. Peyton at Sichili’. Fr. Casimir Butler OFM Cap. and Fr. Declan McFadden OFM Cap. with local men. Fr. Declan with local converts and communicants. Religious sisters with local children. Fr. Declan standing outside the Livingstone Capuchin house. The exteriors and interiors of Capuchin churches in Northern Rhodesia. Postcard prints of wild game in Northern Rhodesia. India: ‘Paharganj Bazaar / Italian Capuchins in India, Old Delhi’.

Repository

Irish Capuchin Archives

Context

Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Missions in Africa > Zambia > Photographs > Photographic Prints

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