Religious Sisters in Africa
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 whe
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- Level of description
- File
- Date
- c.1940-1970
- Reference
- 12
- Extent and medium
- 33 prints; Black and white and colour prints
- Scope and content
- 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’.
- Repository
- Irish Capuchin Archives
- Context
- Irish Capuchin Archives > Papers of the Irish Capuchin Missions in Africa > Zambia > Photographs > Photographic Prints
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