Postcard Collections

BA 182

Photo album from someone interested in missionary activities in the back country of the Belgian Congo. There is a note at the front of the album with a list of goods purchased for a trip in the name of Comte (Count) Marc Minette d’Oulhaye. This album covers a trip he apparently took to the Belgian Congo in the 1950’s. It covers Kwango, Wamba, Kenge, Bakali, Swa-Kilemba, Kwilu, Inzia, Kalonda, Kimbau, Kingombe, Mulope-Isunda, missionaries departing Kimbau for Matari, Bakali, Ndolo. Shows unusual village tombs as well as Christian cemeteries, various named missionaries, village life, local school, the site of a future Mission, various named local Christians, aerial views of the bush, more. 153 photos.

Price: $900.00

Note from the internet: Comte (Count) Marc Minette d’Oulhaye. He was born in Liege, Belgium October 12, 1875, and died in Brussels, April 3, 1959.

BA 181

Album of 22 photos belonging to Hector Chazy, a major landowner in the area of Coquilhatville, purchasing 60 acres of land in 1926/1927. He gives the album to the governor of Equatoria, Charles Duchesne and his wife as a souvenir of Coquilhatville and writes them a note at the front of the album. Aerial photo of his land, Chazy’s home, other buildings he constructed. He owns a local factory, S.A.V.C.H.A., established in 1910. Shown are his factory, loading product onto a river boat at “Shore Chazy”, for the Savon expedition. At the end there is a news article about Chazy and that he brought back a sports canoe with oars and that he will traverse Stanley Pool, that he left Kinshasa and arrived in Brazzaville 42 minutes later, despite the terrible current. The is a photo of Chazy in his boat. All photos with captions.

Price: $350.00

BA 180

Missionary dispensary. SOLD

Price: $30.00

BA 179

5 postcards of colonial and local activity in the Belgian Congo: village life, locals constructing a road, locals levelling a termite mound, pier and stores at Matadi, entry to a redoubt.

Price: $125.00

BA 178

3 French press photos: 2 of president Moise Tschombe and one of ambassador Joseph Kabema.

Price: $90.00

BA 177

Booklet produced by the Asiles des Soldats Invalides Belges (Asylum for Invalid Belgian Soldiers) for in June 1918. It promotes the Belgian Congo, providing a lengthy narrative with statistics along with stationary with photos of the Belgian Congo at the top. Much of the focus of the photos is the war against the Germans in German East Africa. Complete. Rare. SOLD

Price: $450.00

BA 176

Homogenous collection of 32 original photos of Belgian agriculture advisors teaching the local population how to raise crops. No captions.

Price: $600.00

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22 colonial postcards of different villages and village life in the Belgian Congo. Shown are the village of the island of princes opposite boma; a workers village; transporting passengers at Malela; making earthworks at Mayumbe; the monolith at Boma; market at Boma; Banana; Bobo; a Bwangwa village; a lumber post at Stanley-Pool; houses of indigenous planters at Stanleyville; a Bateke village; a Djabbir village; village on the Lomami river.

Price: $440.00

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18 postcards of colonial life in the Belgian Congo. Shown are the hotel at Thysville train station; the first European house built at Elizabeth in 1910; inspection of local police at Irebu; prospecting in the jungle; a signal tower; Minister of Colonies at Uele; a bamboo house on the Mayumbe river; the home of Da Costa at Boma; European home at Bangala; river transportation; post office at Irebu; redout at Uvira; the Royal Athenee (university) at Elizabethville, the Portuguese Club and more.

Price: $400.00

BA 173

7 colonial postcards of railroad development in the Belgian Congo.

Price: $140.00