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Title
Leper colony house, Uzuakoli, Nigeria, 1932
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1927/1937
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 mission house at the leper colony at Uzuakoli, run by the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society (later the Methodist Missionary Society.) The house is brick-built, and has a covered porch. 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-CSCNWW20-1-1-100.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77754
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-100.jpg
Subject
Missionary settlements
Leprosy
Missionary work
Health services
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Exterior views
Time Period
1927/1937
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Uzuakoli
buildings
Source
CSCNWW20/1/1/100 [File]

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