/ Emily Godfrey feeding baby, Nigeria, ca. 1922

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Title: Emily Godfrey feeding baby, Nigeria, ca. 1922
Creator: Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued: 1918/1928
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
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Description: Black and white photograph showing nurse Emily Godfrey feeding a small baby with a bottle. Godfrey was the first Matron of the Ama Achara Hospital in Nigeria run by the Primitive Medical Missionary Society. The rescue of abandoned babies (particularly twin babies) was a common task in the hospital's early years. This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey.
Format: black-and-white photographs
Identifier: IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77704
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-2.jpg
Subject: Godfrey, Emily (1884-1978)
Hospitals
Nurses
Missionaries, medical
Nursing
Women
Children
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Portraits
Time Period: 1918/1928
Place: Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Umuahia
medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
Source: CSCNWW20/1/1/2 [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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