cover image: Just a trim please, Nigeria, ca. 1934

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Just a trim please, Nigeria, ca. 1934

Black and white photograph showing a Nigerian man in a torn shirt cutting the hair of another Nigerian young man, who sits on the ground. The caption to this image (printed on the photograph, suggesting a commercially produced image) reads: "JUST A TRIM PLEASE!" This photograph was pasted into one of a series of exercise book albums created by Emily Godfrey, Matron of the Ama Achara Methodist Hospital in southeast Nigeria run by the Methodist Missionary Society.
men grooming hairdressing group portraits

Authors

Unknown

Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-77821
Date published
1929/1939
Dates
1929/1939
Format
Black-and-white photographs
Place Discussed
Africa Nigeria populated places
Provider
California Digital Library
Published in
Nigeria
Reference
IMP-CSCNWW20-1-1-229.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/114410ef326b651e1b79ebc0f5b459e4

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