Black and white photograph showing a missionary of the Methodist Missionary Society (formerly the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society) holding a small child. She wears a patterned dress. The hospital at Ama Achara took in babies (often twin babies) abandoned by their parents. The caption to this photograph reads: "Miss Gardner and Baby Johnson." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara hospital.
Children Missionary work Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Women missionaries Orphans Church work with orphans Portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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