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Title
Hospital ward, Ilesha, Nigeria, s.d
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
Archives, Manuscripts and Rare Books Division, The Library, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, United Kingdom
Trustees for Methodist Church Purposes
University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
docenquiry@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/library/archives/services/
Description
"New ward." Patients in the new men's ward at Ilesha hospital, built in 1934.
From a set of lantern slides entitled "Ilesha" introducing and describing Wesleyan Methodist work at the hospital and medical mission at Ilesha, a Yoruba town, the former capital of a kingdom ruled over by an Owa. Medical work began in 1916 with the opening of a dispensary. The construction of a hospital followed in the 1920s. The hospital was expanded in 1934.
Type
image
Format
Lantern slides, 8 x 8 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12140 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-23-33
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12140
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-23-33.jpg
Subject
Hospitals
Patients
Methodist Missionary Society
Interior views
Place
Nigeria
Osun
Source
SOAS/MMS/AFW/LS/23/33 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Methodist Missionary Society
Photographs of the Archives and Manuscripts Division, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, ca.1860-1950
School of Oriental and African Studies
impa-m971

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