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Title
Unfurling flag at Uzuakoli sports, Nigeria, 1924
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1919/1929
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 the unfurling of a flag at a sports day at Uzuakoli mission station, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society. The flag is a Union Flag, representing the United Kingdom. A group of Nigerian boys watch the flag raising, and male European missionaries stand around the flag. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also administered by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-3.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77832
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-3.jpg
Subject
Leisure
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Sports
Missionary settlements
Games
Flags
Group portraits
Time Period
1919/1929
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Uzuakoli
educational facilities: Uzuakoli Institute
Source
CSCNWW20/1/2/3 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Second book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-2)
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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