Lot n° 60
Estimation :
200 - 400
EUR
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Result
: 192EUR
CONGO (DRC), BELGIAN CONGO, 1935 - Lot 60
CONGO (DRC), BELGIAN CONGO, 1935
"Missions of the Congo. Bikoro, Coquilhatville, Nsona-Mbata." A set of thirteen postcards and three original photographs mounted on a 49 x 64 cm panel, with the title and captions calligraphied in white gouache. Under glass, in a waxed wooden frame. A panorama of the work of the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and the missionary congregations active in Equateur and Bas-Congo: nuns and missionaries in groups, catechumens and students, mission buildings and chapels, a nativity scene, sewing workshop with Singer sewing machines, the Coquilhatville Hospital for Blacks, and the “St. John the Baptist” mission boat. Postcards published by Nels (Ern. Thill, Brussels), from the series dedicated to the missions. The three locations featured here span two distinct regions of the Belgian Congo. Nsona-Mbata, now Sona-Bata, in Lower Congo, where the Daughters of Charity ran an orphanage and a school alongside the Scheutists and later the Redemptorists. Coquilhatville, now Mbandaka, the capital of Équateur Province and headquarters of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart. Bikoro, on Lake Tumba, served by the Lazarists, established as an autonomous mission in 1931. One of the photographs bears a handwritten caption in ink in the margin: “Ordination of Mr. Van Ghestel, 1935.” Unframed. 48 x 63.5 cm.
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