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Title: Alfred Akwela, Nigeria, ca. 1934
Creator: Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929/1939
Publication Information: University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution: University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection: International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information: Centre for the Study of World Christianity
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The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
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Description: Black and white photograph featuring a middle-aged Nigerian man standing in the courtyard of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Medical Missionary Society. The caption to this slide reads: "Alfred Akwela - Nurse at Ama Achara for 6 1/2 years." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital from 1921 to 1944.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-48.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77729
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-48.jpg
Subject: Akwela, Alfred
Nurses
Hospitals
Nursing
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period: 1929/1939
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source: CSCNWW20/1/1/48 [File]
Relation: Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1)
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from the Centre for the Study of World Christianity, University of Edinburgh, U.K., ca.1900-ca.1940s

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