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Title
Early days at Ama Achara Hospital, Nigeria, ca. 1925
Creator
J: Okosu, Photographer, Um Township
Contributor
J: Okosu, Photographer, Um Township
Date Created and/or Issued
1920/1930
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 showing a group of staff at Ama Achara Hospital in Nigeria run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society, taken early in its history. Matron Emily Godfrey sits in the centre of the image. This image comes from a photograph collection kept by Emily Godfrey.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-15.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77964
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-15.jpg
Subject
Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Hospitals
Nurses
Missionaries, medical
Nursing
Women
Children
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/7/15 [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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