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Title
Mother and baby, Ituk Mbam, Nigeria,, ca. 1933
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1928/1938
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 featuring a Nigerian mother sitting on a wooden chair holding a small baby. She sits in the grounds of the general hospital run at Ituk Mbam in east Nigeria, a facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The caption to the image reads: "Mother & Baby (Bura case) Ituk Mbam." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-153.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77786
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-153.jpg
Subject
Health services
Nursing
Missionary work
Mothers
Infants
Hospitals
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period
1928/1938
Place
Africa
Ituk Mbam
Nigeria
Uyo
medical facilities: Ituk Mbam Hospital
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/153 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; First book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-1)
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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