Tinted lantern slide showing a path through the huts of the Calabar Mission leper colony at Itu. Oil palms can be seen in the background. The huts are thatched and have low walls creating a small private garden or porch area in front of each building. Paths are bordered with plants in an orderly manner. The colony was founded by the Calabar Mission after a leper visited the mission general hospital and dispensary at Itu in 1926. When the patient spread the news that he had been offered help by a Dr Andrew Buchanan Macdonald, sufferers came for treatment, first camping on a sandbank in the Cross River. After a flood, land was leased from an Ibo chief and the colony began to be built by the mission, with a hospital,, housing, treatment rooms, amenities, a church, a school and leisure facilities. There was also a home farm, and industries were set up in order that the colony could be self-supporting. The colony was divided into distinct areas, with four 'towns' making up the large settlement. This slide comes from a set on mission, culture and industry in Calabar, southeast Nigeria generated by the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland (which was incorporated with the Church of Scotland in 1929.)
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lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm lantern slides photographs
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