Black and white photograph showing a piece of ground at Ama Achara in preparation for building a hospital for the Methodist Missionary Society. Five male Nigerian workers can be seen in the background of the image. Another male worker climbs up a palm tree to ready for its demolition. The caption to this image reads: "Clearing ground in preparation for building Hospital. Cutting down Palm tree." This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital.
Authors
- Collection
- International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77846
- Date published
- 1916/1926
- Dates
- 1916/1926
- Format
- Black-and-white photographs
- Place Discussed
- Abia Africa Nigeria Umuahia medical facilities: Methodist Hospital, Ama Achara
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW20-1-2-5.tif
- Rights
- 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/
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/659b626466aae52dcf29c45ebbd3ba2f
