Black and white photograph of two small girls dressed in smocks at Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, a facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. The caption to this image reads: "Grace and Felicia motherless babes brought up from birth, at our hospital. Grace had lain 2 days with mother's dead body, before being brought here. Left for Lagos June 1936." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Health services Missionary work Infants Hospitals Orphans Church work with orphans Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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