Black and white photograph showing Miriam Wakefield at Ama Achara hospital in southeast Nigeria, run by the Methodist Missionary Society. She wears a checked dress and a head-wrap (known as a "gele.") Miriam was brought to the hospital to be cared for by the mission at five months old in 1923. 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 Orphans Church work with orphans Girls Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Wakefield, Miriam Portraits
Time Period
1930/1940
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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