Black and white photograph showing a scene at the Christmas celebration held at Ama Achara in 1938. A group of Nigerian patients and staff sit on wooden benches around the courtyard of the hospital. Men sit separately from women. A wooden cot with a baby inside is in the centre of the courtyard. A European female missionary sits on a wooden char to one side. A banner on the veranda of the hospital reads: "A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Customs and traditions Health services Hospitals Christmas Festivals Infants Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1933/1943
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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