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Title
Ovim Girls' School staff, Nigeria, ca. 1931
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1926/1936
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 of Miss Mason and Miss Lawrence, staff at the Girls' School at Ovim in Abia state, southeast Nigeria, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (later the Methodist Missionary Society.) This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital, also run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-176.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77798
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-176.jpg
Subject
Education
Religious education
Missionary work
Lawrence, Miss
Mason, Miss
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Women missionaries
Teachers
Group portraits
Time Period
1926/1936
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Ovim
educational facilities: Ovim Girls' School
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/176 [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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