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Title
Emaciated child, Nigeria, ca. 1930
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1925/1935
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
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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 lantern slide showing an emaciated small child in southeast Nigeria, possibly cared for by the Methodist Missionary Society hospital in Ama Achara, modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria. The child is held in the arms of a European missionary.
Format
lantern slides 8.2 x 8.2cm
lantern slides
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-9-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-78008
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-9-1.jpg
Subject
Children
Starvation
Malnutrition
Hunger
Missionaries
Hospitals
Infants
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period
1925/1935
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/9/1 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Lantern slides (CSCNWW20-1-9)
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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