Digital Library - Selected African Holdings

"79. Congo Belge. Belgisch-Congo. Elisabethville- L'oeuvre de la Goutte de Lait chez les Soeurs. Het werk der Melk bij de Zusters." A group of women are sitting on the ground …

A gathering of Catholic missionary fathers stands before a large statue of Jesus with outstretched arms. Printed on the back is "Missien van de Broeders der Christelijke Scholen in Congo. …

Four ordained Malagasy men wearing cermonial priestly vestments pose beside a large block building with iron gates. In the background a large group of people is visible. The back of …

"Shil la spider de M. Thomas J.L." ("Shil the carriage of Mr Thomas J.L."). "Spider et M. Lenoir" ("Carriage and Mr Lenoir"). Photographie de David Paul Lenoir assis sur un …

"Cameroun - Un petit servant de messe". A drawing depicts a young boy in the dress of an altar boy holding a small reading-stand upon which rests a book which …

"Lenoir, Lemana" ("Lenoir, Lemana"). "Famille Lenoir" ("Lenoir family"). Photographie de David Paul, Marion, Alice et Nora Lenoir à Lemana. À l'arrière plan, un arbuste et des arbres.Photograph of David Paul, …

"Postulaat der Zusters Missionarissen van O. L. Vrouw van Afrika. (Witte Zusters van Kardinaal Lavigerie, Esch-bij-Boxtel) Boudewijnstad (Opper-Congo) Inlandsche Novicen en Postulanten met eene Witte Zuster." A Catholic missionary sister …

"Madagascar. – Chrétienté hova. Propriété de la ‘Semaine des petits Malgaches’." A group of children are shown sitting holding open books during a lesson while adults look on. A teacher …

"Missionsinspektor Küchler wird durch ein Maisfeld geführt" ("Mission inspector Küchler being led through a maize field"). Küchler sitting in a cart pulled in the front by two African men and …

"En course" ("On a journey") Photograph of a group of Swiss missionaries on a journey. Four of them are riding bicycles. The other ones are traveling on a cart. In …