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Title
E.G at L.C.H, Nigeria, 1932
Creator
Unknown
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 Emily Godfrey, matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (later the Methodist Missionary Society.) Emily Godfrey sits on the steps of the leper colony hospital that the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society ran in Uzuakoli, also in Abia state. The image was taken at Christmas in 1932. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-125.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77771
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-125.jpg
Subject
Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Health services
Missionary work
Hospitals
Nurses
Women missionaries
Missionaries, medical
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period
1927/1937
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Uzuakoli
medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/125 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1)
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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