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Title
New Theatre, Ituk Mbam, Nigeria, ca. 1934
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1939
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 an exterior view of the new operating theatre built by the Methodist Missionary Society at their general hospital in Ituk Mbam, Uyo state, east Nigeria. The hospital was one of three general hospitals run by the mission in east Nigeria. The building is a stone block construction with wooden shutters fitted for ventilation. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Hospital, also run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-146.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77782
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-146.jpg
Subject
Health services
Missionary work
Operating rooms
Hospitals
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Exterior views
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Africa
Ituk Mbam
Nigeria
Uyo
medical facilities: Ituk Mbam Hospital
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/146 [File]

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