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Title
Baby at weight testing, Ama Achara, 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 baby at a clinic in the Ama Achara hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The baby sits on a scale (made by the United Kingdom company, W & T Avery Ltd., Birmingham.) The child wears a string of beads across his body and places his hand on the counterweight of the scales. His mother stands by and watches him. A male nurse at the hospitals sits in the background in a white coat. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-42.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77929
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-42.jpg
Subject
Infants
Clinics
Hospitals
Nurses
Missionary work
Health services
Nursing
Children
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1933/1943
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/5/42 [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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