Black and white photograph showing a small girl standing on a dust road in Nigeria. She is naked, and carries a magazine. Her belly is quite swollen, possibly from an infectious disease. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, an institution run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria.
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