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Title
Entrance to Ituk Mbam Hospital, Nigeria, ca. 1934
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1929/1939
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 the entrance to Ituk Mbam general hospital, run by the Methodist Missionary Society in Uyo state, east Nigeria. The hospital has a wooden gate, and a stone one-storey office or reception building. A European female missionary, possibly Emily Godfrey, stands in the doorway of the hospital entrance. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital run by the Methodist Missionary Society in southeast Nigeria.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-144.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77781
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-144.jpg
Subject
Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Health services
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Women missionaries
Hospitals
Exterior views
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Africa
Ituk Mbam
Nigeria
Uyo
medical facilities: Ituk Mbam Hospital
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/144 [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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