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Title
Male missionary with motor car, Nigeria, ca. 1933
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1927/1937
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
Contact the repository for details.
The University of Edinburgh School of Divinity, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh EH1 2LX, United Kingdom
divinity-CSWC@ed.ac.uk
http://www.cswc.div.ed.ac.uk/collections/
Description
Black and white photograph printed onto a postcard showing a male missionary dressed in shorts and shirt posing on the foot-board of a motor car. The car has a tarpaulin and a convertible roof. This image comes from a photograph collection kept by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Methodist Hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society at Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria, from 1921 to 1944.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-2-18.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77990
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-2-18.jpg
Subject
Automobiles
Missionaries
Motor vehicles
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period
1927/1937
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
Source
CSCNWW20/1/7/2/18 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Loose photographs (CSCNWW20-1-7)
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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