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Title
Emily Godfrey and Miss Stringer outside dispensary, Nigeria, 1923
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
1918/1928
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 on a postcard showing two nurses from the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society standing outside their dispensary at Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria. The nurses are dressed in white uniforms and pith hats with nets attached to them. One of the nurses (Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital) holds a parrot or parakeet on her arm. The nurse who stands to her left is Miss J Stringer. This image comes from a photograph collection kept by Emily Godfrey.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-2-16.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77988
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-2-16.jpg
Subject
Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Stringer, J
Hospitals
Dispensaries
Drugs
Women missionaries
Missionaries, medical
Missionary work
Nursing
Paramedical personnel
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1918/1928
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/7/2/16 [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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