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Title: Dispensary at Ama Achara, Nigeria, ca. 1922
Creator: Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918/1928
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
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Description: Black and white photograph showing a scene at the dispensary of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (later the Methodist Missionary Society.) A man stands under the centre of the thatch canopy to the building, and two female missionaries sit to either side of him. Medical work at Ama Achara was begun in 1921, with a single nurse (Emily Godfrey, the first Matron of the Ama Achara Hospital), and a female missionary, Miss Leggatt. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77697
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-1.jpg
Subject: Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Hospitals
Nurses
Missionaries, medical
Nursing
Women
Children
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period: 1918/1928
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source: CSCNWW20/1/1/1 [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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