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Title
Missionary staff and babies, Ama Achara, 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 a group of Nigerian and European staff at the hospital at Ama Achara, southeast Nigeria, sitting with a group of child patients. The hospital was run by the Methodist Missionary Society. The children range in age from very small babies to toddlers. As well as handling local births, the hospital dealt with many abandoned babies, particularly twins, who were considered to be unlucky in local tradition. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-194.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77808
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-194.jpg
Subject
Health services
Missionary work
Nursing
Hospitals
Nurses
Infants
Orphans
Church work with orphans
Missionaries, medical
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Group portraits
Time Period
1929/1939
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/194 [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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