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Title: Nigerian nurses and child, Nigeria, ca. 1929
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1925/1935
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
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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 three Nigerian nurses at the ama Achara Hospital run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria. The nurses wear white uniforms, white scarves and white shoes. A small child in a smock sits drinking from a metal cup in the centre of the group. This image comes from a photograph collection kept by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Methodist Hospital at Ama Achara from 1921 to 1944.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-2-6.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77983
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-7-2-6.jpg
Subject: Hospitals
Missions
Missionaries, medical
Nurses
Nursing
Medical centres
Health services
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: 1925/1935
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source: CSCNWW20/1/7/2/6 [File]
Relation: Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Loose photographs (CSCNWW20-1-7)
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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