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Title
Group of ten missionaries, Nigeria, ca. 1930
Creator
J: Okosu, Photographer, Um Township
Contributor
J: Okosu, Photographer, Um Township
Date Created and/or Issued
1925/1935
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
Group portrait photograph of ten missionaries from the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. One gentleman is a member of the clergy, and wears a white collar. The group is smartly dressed: women wear smart dresses and hats, and men wear suits and ties. This image comes from a photograph collection kept by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Methodist Hospital at Ama Achara from 1921 to 1944.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-8-1-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78001
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-8-1-1.jpg
Subject
Missionaries
Women missionaries
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1925/1935
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/8/1 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Large photographs (CSCNWW20-1-8)
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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