Black and white photograph showing the Nigerian mother of two twin girls, Miriam and Dorcas. Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society hospital at Ama Achara in southeast Nigeria, is pictured carrying one of the children. A bare-chested Nigerian woman carries another child, and another woman sits in the foreground with a young girl. A Nigerian boy stands at the left of the image. The caption to this image reads: "Twin mother & babies Miriam & Dorcas." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978) Health services Children Nursing Infants Nurses Women missionaries Mothers Primitive Methodist Missionary Society Methodist Missionary Society Group portraits
Time Period
1920/1930
Place
Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
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