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Title: "Nest", Nigeria, ca. 1935
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1930/1940
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 photograph showing Emily Godfrey, Matron of the hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society at Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria. She wears a pith helmet, dress and white coat. She carries a "nest" made of reeds, at which she looks down. Emily Godfrey stands in the hospital grounds. The caption to this image reads: "'Nest' in which a newly born baby was brought to us." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-4-43.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77869
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-4-43.jpg
Subject: Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Health services
Missionary work
Nursing
Infants
Orphans
Church work with orphans
Hospitals
Nurses
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period: 1930/1940
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source: CSCNWW20/1/4/43 [File]
Relation: Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Fourth book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-4)
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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