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Title: Portrait of healthy patient, Ghana, ca. 1940
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: circa 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: 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: "The first patient after the cure. (Abrepo, nr. Kumasi). Smiling man with young girl. Female missionary and indigenous medical worker in background. Christopher Eddy was a lay educational missionary in the Gold Coast District from 1920 to 1958.
Methodist Missionary work in West Africa had begun in 1811 with Coke's mission to Sierra Leone. A second station was opened on the River Gambia in 1821, and on the Gold Coast in 1834.
Type: image
Format: gelatin silver prints, 6 x 8.5 cm.
photographs
Identifier: impa-m2308 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-018-005
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m2308
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-SOA-MMS-06-20-018-005.jpg
Subject: Medical personnel
Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society
Eddy, Christopher, T
Portraits
Time Period: circa 1940
Place: Africa
Ghana
Source: SOAS/MMS/AFW1195a/018/005 [File]
Relation: (Wesleyan) Methodist Missionary Society
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
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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