Ventes live - Lot 641
[Africa - Congo]
Photo album Congo.
1928-1931
Prix de marteau: €
320
€ 150 / 200
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Description du lot
157 silver prints and 7 b/w photo postcards, diff. sizes, pasted on support paper, ms. legends in ink on the photos.
Kept in an obl. 4to-size brown cloth album.
Photo album portraying mainly indigenous people, but also the infrastructure, nature and animals in Congo. A.o.: a catholic mission at Tumba, a hospital and its operation room at "Cico" (?), a factory Cico, Mr and Mrs Nisot (colonials), the Lukala, Uele and Congo River, arrival at Tumba of Mgr. Dellepiane (Giovanni Battista Dellepiane (1889-1961), Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who spent his career in the diplomatic service of the Holy See, incl. 19 years leading the Vatican's mission to the Belgian Congo), inauguration of a clock in Cico, a market and "beauty institute" at Cico, Matadi port, women of Bangala, Kasaï people, Leopoldville, the sugar factory and Mr Hubaille, animals, etc. At the end 7 photo postcards of Tenerife.