/ Opening of Olokoro Clan Maternity Home, Nigeria, 1944

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Title: Opening of Olokoro Clan Maternity Home, Nigeria, 1944
Creator: Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued: 1939/1949
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
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
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Description: Black and white photograph showing a group of Nigerian schoolchildren, European missionaries, Nigerian clergy and Nigerian mission hospital workers at the opening of Olokoro Clan Maternity Home on 6th January, 1944. The home was probably an Anglican-run facility. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria, run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-100.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77959
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-100.jpg
Subject: Hospitals
Missionaries
Religious gatherings
Nurses
Children
Midwifery
Missionary work
Health services
Group portraits
Time Period: 1939/1949
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Olokoro
medical facilities
Source: CSCNWW20/1/5/100 [File]
Relation: Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Fifth book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-5)
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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