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Title
Leper colony group, Nigeria, 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
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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 a group of leprosy patients visited during Christmas 1934 by Emily Godfrey, the Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, southeast Nigeria, run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The leper colony was based in the town of Uzuakoli. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-41.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77724
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-41.jpg
Subject
Hospitals
Leprosy
Leprosy patients
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Uzuakoli
medical facilities: Uzuakoli Leper Colony
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/41 [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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