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Title: Uzuakoli leper colony chapel, 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
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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
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Description: Black and white photograph showing the chapel at the leper colony at Uzuakoli in modern Abia state, Nigeria. The colony was run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The chapel is a single-story building with a thatched roof. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in southeast Nigeria, also run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-51.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77939
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-51.jpg
Subject: Chapels
Leprosy
Missionary settlements
Missionary work
Hospitals
Religious buildings
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Exterior views
Time Period: 1933/1943
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Uzuakoli
medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
Source: CSCNWW20/1/5/51 [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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