Black and white photograph showing a nurse at the Ama Achara hospital, Miss Stephens. The hospital was run by the Methodist Missionary Society and based in southeast Nigeria. Miss Stephens holds a small baby on her knee, and is watched by a small child in a romper suit, who stands next to her. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Missionary work Nursing Infants Orphans Church work with orphans Hospitals Nurses Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Stephens, Miss Group portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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