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Title
Classroom at Uzuakoli, Nigeria, ca. 1921
Creator
Emily Godfrey
Date Created and/or Issued
1916/1926
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 classroom building at the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society station at Uzuakoli, southeast Nigeria. A group of Nigerians (possibly pupils and staff) stand in the shade of the building roof. An abandoned pith helmet can be seen in the middle ground of the image. 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 under the Primitive Methodist Missionary Society.
Format
black-and-white photographs
Identifier
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-14.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77837
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-14.jpg
Subject
Education
Religious education
Missionary work
Primitive Methodist Missionary Society
Methodist Missionary Society
Schools
Classrooms
Missions
Missionary settlements
Exterior views
Time Period
1916/1926
Place
Abia
Africa
Nigeria
Uzuakoli
educational facilities: Uzuakoli Institute
Source
CSCNWW20/1/2/14 [File]
Relation
Emily Godfrey collection; Box 1; Second book of photographs (CSCNWW20-1-2)
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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