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Title
Mrs Arnot and Miss MacKennell, Nigeria, 1943
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1938/1948
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 two female European missionaries working for the Church of Scotland in southeast Nigeria in Aro Chuku, modern Akwa-Ibom state. The missionaries wear smart day dresses, an pose next to a tree. The caption to this image reads: "Mrs Arnot & Miss MacKennell - in charge of work (former school) latter Village Evan[gelical] work) at Aro Chuku since 1916. Taken 1943." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital a medical facility run by the Methodist Missionary Society in modern Abia state, southeast Nigeria.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-93.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77954
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-93.jpg
Subject
Church of Scotland
Missionary work
Women missionaries
Group portraits
Time Period
1938/1948
Place
Africa
Akwa-Ibom
Arochukwu
Nigeria
religious facilities
Source
CSCNWW20/1/5/93 [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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