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Title
Market, Nigeria, ca. 1938
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1933/1943
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 showing a marketplace in southeast Nigeria. Bowls and wicker baskets can be seen in the foreground of the image, with kernels inside. Vegetables have been placed on the ground for sale. A woman with a wrap around her waist and a head-scarf stands by the stall, and men can be seen in the background. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, an institution run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-35.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77932
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-35.jpg
Subject
Marketplaces
Women
Trade
General views
Time Period
1933/1943
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
commercial sites
Source
CSCNWW20/1/5/35 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Fifth book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-5)
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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