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Title: Four little mission babies, Nigeria, 1916
Creator: Unknown
Contributor: Goodlife
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911/1921
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 postcard showing four small babies cared for by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, probably at their bases in southeast Nigeria. The children sit in a wicker basket. The caption to the card reads: "4 little mission babies about 1916." This postcard was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in southeast Nigeria, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-3-22.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77860
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-3-22.jpg
Subject: Children
Infants
Hospitals
Orphans
Church work with orphans
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: 1911/1921
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source: CSCNWW20/1/3/22 [File]
Relation: Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Third book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-3)
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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