Black and white photograph of a Nigerian woman in the Aro Chuku area of modern Akwa-Ibom state, Nigeria. She wears a patterned dress and a headscarf, and faces the camera sitting on a wooden chair. The caption next to this image reads: "Grace - a very good worker - Aro Chuku church 1943." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, an institution in modern Abia state run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
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