Black and white photograph featuring the canal built at Itu leper colony, run by the Church of Scotland in Calabar, southeast Nigeria. A boat powered by oarsmen with long poles can be seen in the distance. The caption to the image reads: "Canal at Itu Leper Colony - constructed to save lepers long walks to farm, Dec 1943." The leper colony included many housing areas and amenities, including a farm to provide patients with fresh food. 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-c123-77947
- Date published
- 1938/1948
- Dates
- 1938/1948
- Format
- Black-and-white photographs
- Place Discussed
- Africa Akwa-Ibom Itu Nigeria canals
- Provider
- California Digital Library
- Published in
- Nigeria
- Reference
- IMP-CSCNWW20-1-5-82.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/f083bf1e58d7028f5f253b6c83011452
